FoodBanter.com - View Single Post

Janet

In article >,
says...
>
> On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 17:47:57 -0800 (PST), "
> > wrote:
>
> >On Sunday, February 22, 2015 at 6:15:39 PM UTC-6, Dave Smith wrote:
> >>
> >> On 2015-02-22 19:00, wrote:
> >> > I packaged Franco & sold the pilot for Slim Cuisine to KOCE in
> >> > Huntington Beach, CA in 1979. Franco died of AIDS.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Will this newbie be offended if any of us reply in a less than
> >> welcoming manner?
> >>
> >>
> >I won't be offended. I see a lot of these dumbasses on other groups dredging up 10-15-20 year old posts and replying like someone had just posted a question a few hours before. And you never see these dummies again. (Thankfully)
>
> Those are not necessarily posters actually reading the group. In one
> of my groups it was taken over - surreptitiously - by a setup that
> tranferred our posts to themselves, sold ads, and would plant
> questions from way back to keep their group looking as if everyone was
> active.

You've (roughly) described why the "banter" groups act as portals to
usenet. They use usenet groups as "rentacrowd" to attract paying
advertisers to the banter websites.

Janet UK