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Very close to giving up ...
Al Arduengo schreef:
Don't give up. I make good use of my filtering system. If you use a decent newsreader (Thunderbird is "ok"), you can keep yourself from ever seeing 80% of the crap, while not missing 99% of the worthwhile stuff. I'm using SpamPal for my regular email filtering, as I found Thunderbirds' heuristic system giving me too many false positives. I'm unaware though if SpamPal can be used for Usenet also. I think it would be hard to shift the worthwhile posts from these threads from the useful ones though. Same posters, normal English, etc. Although I'm sure it will help with the spam. If you need help with the filter set up, let me know. I would be glad to assist. I have been unable to find a setting for newsgroups only filtering. Closest I found was "local folders". Otherwise I'm using separate accounts for all my email accounts, so "local folders" is completely idle. If you have any tips, they're welcome! I wonder though how useful it is as some of the posters in these flamewars also make useful posts in the same type of English. I'm really curious whether heuristics will help there... But I love to be proven wrong on this one -- JeroenK |
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