"JuLiE Dxer" wrote in message
...

[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.

Thank you for your reply, Sanjaya..

That was my approach for the first month or two. I became very
irritated once I figured out that quite of few of these morons were
changing their Identities to get around kill filters. I manage to link
one sot to about 15 identities in one week or two. I've actively
emailed all their ISPs once I deemed their activity merited such
actions. I've had to resort to adding topic filtering too which will
undoubtedly filter out some good postings I'd rather not have
filtered.


73 MJ




On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 19:10:20 GMT, "Sanjaya"
wrote:


"JuLiE Dxer" wrote in message
.. .

[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.

STOP YOUR OFF TOPIC POSTING

"JuLiE Dxer" wrote in message
...

Thank you for your reply, Sanjaya..

That was my approach for the first month or two. I became very
irritated once I figured out that quite of few of these morons were
changing their Identities to get around kill filters. I manage to link
one sot to about 15 identities in one week or two. I've actively
emailed all their ISPs once I deemed their activity merited such
actions. I've had to resort to adding topic filtering too which will
undoubtedly filter out some good postings I'd rather not have
filtered.


73 MJ




On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 19:10:20 GMT, "Sanjaya"
wrote:


"JuLiE Dxer" wrote in message
. ..

[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.

"Sanjaya" wrote in message news:wqujd.3513

I'll just keep filtering and clicking the posts that I'm interested in.

Yes, I do the same and get mainly radio related postings only.

Its worth the effort.

Mike