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"Mike....." wrote:
> Following up to Giovanni Drogo
>
> > The real use of the killfile should be to filter offensive people so
> > that one is not even tempted to reply to them.
>
> that is true but i've found recently that the spam made it hard to see
> valid threads, so it was time to sort things out. I also quite enjoy
> fiddling with the filters to get it right, but that's just me :-)
Well, I don't know about other newsreaders, but with Newswatcher,
everything is threaded by subject, so I just zip past all the junk, which
usually runs clear across the page and has no replies, and look at
threads with multiple replies. Then when I finish a session, I just
mark the whole group "read" and the junk gets dumped.
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Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar)
You can't reason with someone whose first line of argument is
that reason doesn't count. --Isaac Asimov
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