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I'm looking forward to some troll-free reading.

Good deal -- but I'm curious how you will accomplish this feat, given
that "the troll" responds to virtually every thread.
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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I'm looking forward to some troll-free reading.

Good deal -- but I'm curious how you will accomplish this feat, given
that "the troll" responds to virtually every thread.

This filter for Outlook Express marks his postings as ignored, and anything
from that branch on in that thread.

He no longer exists on my computer (Except the posts *ABOUT* him)

My 2/1 post:

I found the following completely eliminates mxsmanic from usenet, along with
any responses to him. Using this, I don't need to killfile anyone else. Only
responses to polluted threads are gone.

Tools - Message Rules - News - - New:

Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the From line contains 'mxsmanic'
Mark the message as ignored

View - Current View - Customize Current View:

View - Current View - Hide Read or Ignored Messages
View - Current View - Customize Current View

Un-check 'Where the message has been read'

Change the name to 'Hide Ignored Messages'


View - Current View - Make Sure 'Hide Ignored Messages' is checked.

"Jay Honeck"

Good deal -- but I'm curious how you will accomplish this feat, given
that "the troll" responds to virtually every thread.

I followed Steve Foley's instructions from a Feb 1st post and it worked
well. I did some comparisons from what showed up on Google versus the
filtered Outlook Express view and it only removed his posts within a
particular thread as well as any reponses to his "branch." The original post
remains along with almost all non-mx-related posts. I do however, see posts
that are about him or mention him in their posts.

I imagine that I would miss posts on his branch that have somehow switched
back on topic but that's probably a rare occurrence.

I'd say it was a 95% or more improvement over the non-filtered view.

Marco

"Marco Leon" wrote in message
I do however, see posts that are about him or mention him in their posts.

If you choose 'message - Ignore Thread' while highlighting the message
about him, that will go away, along with the replies.