"JuLiE Dxer" wrote in message
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[snippage]


I have to weed through hundreds of posts of pure "OFF-TOPIC" nonsense
to find relevelant postings. One time, last month, when I pulled down
new headers I think it was 72 of 102 were political postings by one
specific individual up in Canada. The remaining 30 were mostly
political retorts to the sot in Canada. Maybe one or two shortwave
related postings existed. I should haven't to weed through 100+
postings to find one, maybe two shortwave radio postings. That's just
purely wrong.


You're absolutely right. But it's not going to stop.
The other day I got home from work, ran OE and clicked this group.
The status bar said 145 messages not downloaded. When my
killfile and ignored threads filter got done I had 33 mostly on topic
posts to look through. 77% cleanup rate.

It takes a little effort but it's worth it to me. In fact, if so many people
didn't bother to respond to the off topic posts... well, you get the picture.
Trolls might go away if no one replies to them, but that's not going to
happen either. I'll just keep filtering and clicking the posts that I'm interested
in.