FredW <
fr...@blackholespam.net> wrote:
>On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:39:51 +0000, Terry Pinnell
><terry...@DELETEgmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Anyone here using alt.comp.freeware, with useful filters to share please?
>
>I have my own set of filters made over time.
>Maybe you should read this message of John Corliss very carefully:
> "(OT) Attention new people: How to filter out most of forgeries and
>trolling when reading this group."
>
>He sends this from time to time.
>(I have John Corliss himself killfiled as "Mark Read")
>
>The first thing for you is to killfile anything from Author: "b7r7tn"
>That helps a lot.
>
>Via a preprocessor before Agent I have killfiled all messages from and
>answers to "Bear Bottom" or any similar name.
>(and of course "b7r7tn")
>Messages of cats (and some other creatures) are also deleted by me
>before reading.
>
>For me that helped a lot.
>
>For the rest I am very sorry, but you will have to develop your own
>Usenet filters depending on what (or better said WHO) you find annoying.
>
>Good luck, alt.comp.freeware can be very nice when you apply the proper
>(for you) filters (don't be afraid to filter more and more).
Thanks Fred, I'll experiment along those lines.