RadioBanter - A humble request for "SlowCode" and contemporaries

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:39:53 GMT, Cecil Moore wrote:
Chris wrote:
My request is: ... and please learn how to
take action yourself by killing all posts crossposted to groups other
than rec.radio.amateur.antenna.

Please explain how to do that with Thunderbird.

You should make sure that you have a proper news reader and then
configure it as has been outlined in the news.answers FAQs for the last
20 years or so. If Thunderbird won't cut the mustard, then you should
drop it in in favor of one of the other three or four *free* newsreaders
which can do the job.

Usenet users should take responsibility for their own environment and
stop asking others to do it for them. Too many people have a cheesy
newsreader (such as Google Groups) and are too lazy to find a good one.
They are often the people who complain the most loudly about crossposts
instead of doing something about it themselves.

(Hint: People using newsreaders which can filter on the Newsgroups header
should develop a filter which uses that header. If an article is
crossposted, there will be at least one comma in that header. To kill
all crossposted articles, kill all articles with a comma in the
Newsgroups header. You can also use the Xref header to do the same
thing by searching for two or more colons.)