Re: filtering a newsgroup

Richard Steiner (rsteiner@skypoint.com)
Mon, 9 Sep 1996 10:08:05 -0500 (CDT)

On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Brett Tabke wrote:

> Someone somewhere was saying:
>
> >>to strip out all the talk about "Agent" and "Gravity" on the
> >>alt.usenet.offline-reader newsgroup. It looks like this
> >Filters only work on incoming EMAIL. To hide all the undesirable messages
>
> That is the problem - nobody wants the messages to be "hidden"
> everyone wants them "deleted".

True in some case, not in others. I'd prefer both -- that way I can
remove stuff I obviously don't want to see (like massive crossposts)
permanently, and I can still use scoring to temporarily remove (mark as
read) postings that I'm not interested in right now but MIGHT want to
reference later.

> As long as they take up valuable hard drive space, they *ARE* a
> bother. I dunno, I've found scoring to be rather be, ah, hmm, (tip
> toe'ing) "useless" - does nothing but sort out an order, which I
> find irrelevant.

Well, you can also mark things as read, which makes things invisible as
long as you only view "unread" items in your normal course of reading. I
don't use it for manipulating sort order at all.

My attitude might be slightly different because diisk space to me is not
a problem (I have gigs of free space <g>).

> note to myself: shut the hell up and quit complaining - it is a
> freeware program.

:-)

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