New filter - everyone PLEASE add

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Morgans wrote:


"Dave Doe" wrote

**** off Noddy.

User added to Bozo bin.


Oh, that really hurts, coming from somebody with a nobody name.
Please feel free to ignore me. I know I will do the same for you.

So you can to it for him but not the Maniac? Brilliant.

Good isn't it

--
Duncan

Howdy!

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Morgans wrote:
OK, everyone, since some feel they have to respond to Mxsmaniac's posts, how
about being humane to all of us who don't want to read all of the crap that is
following in his wake.

It is easy to make a change to your reply, to help us all out. Simply position
your cursor in the subject bar after the "" in the subject. Then, type MX,
and then continue along your merry way with your post.

This MX will allow every post after yours in the thread to be eliminated, by
people who use a newsreader that can not filter entire threads, without a
marker, but prefer not to read his ignorance and thread hijacking.

This tactic has worked well in other groups. Please be kind to others in this
group and take the time to help us block him.

That "advice" ASSumes a lot about my newsreader.

A lot that is utterly wrong.

If you are advocating putting Mxsmaniac into a killfile, why
not come right out and say so using the appropriate terminology.

I think it would be more useful for people to tag their
replies to Skylune with 'SKY'. Then I could more easily filter
out replies to his rabid ranting ridiculousness. Mxsmaniac, by
comparison, merely shows dogged ignorance -- something that
*might* be treatable. I'm willing to stipulate that Mxsmaniac's
determination is impressive, even.

I would hope that your newsreader has some sort of killfile type
function. If not, perhaps you need to reconsider the tools you
use to read newsgroups. I'm using a tool that has been around
for a long time, and it's had that capability since forever.

yours,
Michael


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Michael and MJ Houghton | Herveus d'Ormonde and Megan O'Donnelly
| White Wolf and the Phoenix narrowwares
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"Michael Houghton" wrote

A lot that is utterly wrong.

If you are advocating putting Mxsmaniac into a killfile, why
not come right out and say so using the appropriate terminology.

A kill file only kills his posts, not all of the replies to his posts, but you
know that. He is in my kill file, as well as Mr. 'lune. With a tag like MX or
SKY, I can write a rule to remove all of the responses to his posts, if the
respondants will use it.

I think it would be more useful for people to tag their
replies to Skylune with 'SKY'. Then I could more easily filter
out replies to his rabid ranting ridiculousness. Mxsmaniac, by
comparison, merely shows dogged ignorance -- something that
*might* be treatable. I'm willing to stipulate that Mxsmaniac's
determination is impressive, even.

I guess that opinion is just that, and the differences make the world go round.
I find MX much more damaging, personally. If you were to propose a SKY filter,
I would gladly comply, if I were responding to 'Luanne. Did you hear the good
news? He said he will not be back! Yea!

Also, let me say that although no newsreader is perfect, or has all the features
you want, none do. They all are compromises. I have no plans to change.
--
Jim in NC

Morgans wrote:
It is easy to make a change to your reply, to help us all out. Simply
position your cursor in the subject bar after the "" in the
subject. Then, type MX, and then continue along your merry way with
your post.

Learn how to use your newsreader or get a newsreader that will allow you
better filtering options... I killfiled the troll quite awhile ago... I
do not like it when a subject changes throughout a thread because I
don't group my messages in my newsreader, I prefer them to be in
chronological order, regardless of the subject...

Killfile any post that originates from him and any thread that he starts
and that will significantly cut down on his visibility on your
newsreaders...

Or maybe you should contact him and see if he would just prepend a
"TROLL -- " to the front of any message that he posts to make it easier
for you...