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"Brian" wrote:

"Telamon" wrote in message
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If everyone ignored the nut jobs it would not matter if they kept
posting here or stopped at some point. The nut jobs are not the problem.
The problem is people responding to the nut jobs.

Kill filing is the passive approach, which would be a complete solution
if not for people responding to them.

Complaining about them to their provider to get their accounts
terminated is the aggressive approach.

I would take the aggressive approach but the people that like to torment
the nut jobs would complain that I took away their fun so I stick with
the passive approach.

I found a way to fine tune the kill file so I generally don't see the
Troll OR responses to the Troll. If I toggle the filter off and respond
to the Troll myself my own response along with anyone else will be
killed when I toggle the filter back on. Works great for cleaning up the
news group posts. 99% of the crap is automatically deleted. Only takes a
few seconds to generate a filter for a new Troll. Then just re-filter
the days posts so you only have to see them once and the rest of the
crap goes away.

Get a good news reader with flexible filters and you will be in good
shape despite the nonsense in the news group.


Telamon, I'm curious, what news client do you use? I've not figured out how
to configure Outlook Express to filter responses to those in my killfile;
perhaps it can't be done.

You need to use a dedicated news reader. I don't know how to use Outlook
Express for reading news. I just use it for mail. The Mac version of
Outlook is called Entourage on the Mac.

If I turn on the header information it shows the line below on one of my
posts.

User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.4 (PPC Mac OS X)

On your post it's

X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180

Well I use a Mac as you can tell from the header information and my news
reader is MT-NewsWatcher.

There has to be many free news readers for PC's. Don't use a mail
program for Usenet.

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Telamon
Ventura, California