Been Gone Awhile

Bob Fry writes:
"M" == Morgans writes:

M There is a good way to do it for outlook express, if you are
M interested. Just ask if you want the how to's that a few of us
M are using.

For those who want advanced article screening, I suggest GNUS running
on Xemacs. This works on Windows, Macs, and Linux, is free, and not
hard to setup. For instance, I can ignore posts started by a given
author and *all followups* to those posts. Really makes Usenet
readable again. And Xemacs is an extremely versatile text editor for
those with a need for something beyond Notepad.

May I ask how you teach gnus this trick? I use gnus, but have not
delved that deeply into the documentation...

Chris

If your bios was either DIP or PLCC and Removable I have chip high end
programmers you could have just called me I would have programmed your bios
chip for shipping costs!!!!


"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
...
Hello everyone;
Sorry about the absence. Our PC went for a deep six on the 15th of January
with a bad bios update. Had to order a brand new system which just got
here
today. (No sense doing the chipset replacement as the new system was to be
ordered anyway.
I hope everyone has remained in good health and good spirits while I've
been
making this changeover in computers :-)
Dudley Henriques

"Viperdoc" wrote in message
...
I loaded your previous info into one computer, and it works great. Would
you send it offline or repost? The invasiveness by MXS keeps getting worse
and worse.

The majority of posts no longer even involve flying.


In MS OE, highlight on "tools" at the top of an open program

Highlight "message rules" and from the new drop down, click on "news"

On the right side, select and click on "new"

In the new dialog box, in 1), check the box "where the from line contains
people", then go to 2) and check the box "mark the message as watched or
ignored"

In the next box down, where it has a link that says "contains people" and
type in Mxsmanic, then add, and OK. A new box will come up and where it
says "watched or ignored", select it, and a new box will come up, put a dot
in the box that says "ignore".

You can then follow the procedure to apply it to the correct newsgroup.

You will have to feel your way around on the next step, because my computer
is already modified, and It will not show what I did, without a lot of steps
backwards.

Go to the "view at the top of a program page, and I think you click on view,
select current view, and go down to customize view, and here it is foggy,
but you go down and check hide read or ignored messages, and go on to click
on hide ignored messages, and it should bring up a new selection in the drop
down menu from the view at the top of the program box, that says hide
ignored message. Select that box, and you are finally done.

I hope you can get it done from my so-called description. It does make life
much better, and it is worth the time.

Cue "Mission Impossible" music! g
--
Jim in NC

"CB" == Christopher Brian Colohan Christopher writes:
CB May I ask how you teach gnus this trick? I use gnus, but have
CB not delved that deeply into the documentation...

As you might expect, it's already built in, but obscu

L-f-s-t ret

which Lowers the score on followups, substring, temporary.

IIRC adaptive scoring probably needs to be enabled for this to work.

See the manual for details...

,----[ (info "(gnus)Summary Score Commands") ]
| `f'
| Score on followups--this matches the author name, and adds
| scores to the followups to this author. (Using this key
| leads to the creation of `ADAPT' files.)
`----
--
Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
Groucho Marx

Dudley Henriques wrote:

Hello everyone;
Sorry about the absence. Our PC went for a deep six on the 15th of January
with a bad bios update. Had to order a brand new system which just got
here today. (No sense doing the chipset replacement as the new system was
to be ordered anyway.
I hope everyone has remained in good health and good spirits while I've
been making this changeover in computers :-)
Dudley Henriques


Welcome back.

Sorry about the absence. Our PC went for a deep six on the 15th of January
with a bad bios update. Had to order a brand new system which just got
here
today. (No sense doing the chipset replacement as the new system was to be
ordered anyway.
I hope everyone has remained in good health and good spirits while I've
been
making this changeover in computers :-)
Dudley Henriques


Welcome back.

Sorry to hear of the computer trouble.

Peter