Hey - it works!

Peter

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Dec 29, 2004, 11:46:47 PM12/29/04

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I've never felt the need to use the filters in Newswatcher but I thought
Id try the Kill this Author.. option with Snit. Ten seconds later and
he's gone! Amazing.

Peter

B.B.

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Dec 30, 2004, 1:32:18 AM12/30/04

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In article <user-792413.1...@freenews.iinet.net.au>,
Peter <us...@foobar.com> wrote:

Drag/Drop this into your filters window in MT-NewsWatcher. It'll
kill any article from Snit AND that replies to Snit. Or replies to a
reply to Snit...
As an experiment I enabled these filters and then tried 'em out on
all the articles currently in my newsspool for CSMA. Out of 43895
articles total, 22337 were killed, leaving 21558 unkilled.
So, those filters have killed just above 50% of the messages in CSMA
since August. I like that result so much I think I'll keep them turned
on.

#
# These filters were exported from MT-NewsWatcher
#
# Version: 3.4
# Date: Thursday, December 30, 2004
#
# You can drag this text into the Filters window of MT-NewsWatcher
# to import these filters.
#
GROUP=comp.sys.mac.advocacy
KEPT=kFalse
#
STRING=SNIT
HEADER=references
MATCH=kContainsTheString
IGNORECASE=kTrue
SCORE=-10
LABEL=33
#
STRING=SNIT
HEADER=from
MATCH=kContainsTheString
IGNORECASE=kTrue
SCORE=-10
LABEL=33
#

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Snit

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Dec 30, 2004, 3:05:49 AM12/30/04

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"B.B." <DoNotSpa...@airmail.net.com.org.gov.tw.ch.ru> wrote in post
DoNotSpamthegoat4-5...@library.airnews.net on 12/29/04
11:32 PM:

> In article <user-792413.1...@freenews.iinet.net.au>,
> Peter <us...@foobar.com> wrote:
>
>> I've never felt the need to use the filters in Newswatcher but I thought
>> Id try the Kill this Author.. option with Snit. Ten seconds later and
>> he's gone! Amazing.
>>
>> Peter
>
> Drag/Drop this into your filters window in MT-NewsWatcher. It'll
> kill any article from Snit AND that replies to Snit. Or replies to a
> reply to Snit...

Thanks. Hopefully the people who do not want to see me can stop bitching!

Such whiners!

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Feel free to ask for the recipe.

Snit

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Dec 30, 2004, 3:09:00 AM12/30/04

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"Peter" <us...@foobar.com> wrote in post
user-792413.1...@freenews.iinet.net.au on 12/29/04 9:46 PM:

>
> I've never felt the need to use the filters in Newswatcher but I thought
> Id try the Kill this Author.. option with Snit. Ten seconds later and
> he's gone! Amazing.

No, I am still here... but if you do not want to see my posts, it is easy to
kill filter me in almost any news reader.

Not sure why people prefer to whine instead... other than they are lying
when they say they want to no longer see my posts.

Or maybe they are technically incompetent.

Whining, technically incompetent trolls... pretty much sums up the people
who keep telling me to leave.

And the people who will dishonestly snip the above sentence. :)

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Peter

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Dec 30, 2004, 6:26:12 AM12/30/04

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In article
<DoNotSpamthegoat4-5...@library.airnews.net>,
"B.B." <DoNotSpa...@airmail.net.com.org.gov.tw.ch.ru> wrote:

Done - thanks for the tip!

Peter

Mike Dee

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Dec 30, 2004, 7:49:34 AM12/30/04

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Peter <us...@foobar.com> wrote in
news:user-EB9A9D.2...@freenews.iinet.net.au:

This gets Snit + sockpuppets [+ his circus if you wish to add other
names] - you can add to the string by seperating names with a "|".

Kill if 'from' matches the regular expression

The parenthesis ( ) enclosing the string is required.

--
dee

Steve Hix

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Dec 30, 2004, 1:54:51 PM12/30/04

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In article <user-EB9A9D.2...@freenews.iinet.net.au>,
Peter <us...@foobar.com> wrote:

Doesn't work for me, at least I still get posts responding to snit or
talking about him.

Alan Baker

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Jan 1, 2005, 8:45:28 PM1/1/05

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In article <BDF904ED.19499%SN...@CABLE0NE.NET.INVALID>,
Snit <SN...@CABLE0NE.NET.INVALID> wrote:

> "B.B." <DoNotSpa...@airmail.net.com.org.gov.tw.ch.ru> wrote in post
> DoNotSpamthegoat4-5...@library.airnews.net on 12/29/04
> 11:32 PM:
>
> > In article <user-792413.1...@freenews.iinet.net.au>,
> > Peter <us...@foobar.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I've never felt the need to use the filters in Newswatcher but I thought
> >> Id try the Kill this Author.. option with Snit. Ten seconds later and
> >> he's gone! Amazing.
> >>
> >> Peter
> >
> > Drag/Drop this into your filters window in MT-NewsWatcher. It'll
> > kill any article from Snit AND that replies to Snit. Or replies to a
> > reply to Snit...
>
> Thanks. Hopefully the people who do not want to see me can stop bitching!
>
> Such whiners!

Riiiiight.

You want that to happen so much you carefully snipped without mention
the text someone would need to drag.

--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
"If you raise the ceiling 4 feet, move the fireplace from that wall
to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect
if you sit in the bottom of that cupboard."