Ms Maniac X - how to ignor him

Over a month ago Ms Maniac X was KILLFILED by me.

For me, thread volume has dropped to a readable level once again - with him
(somewhat) gone.

I am truely amazed at how many quotes I see where people still reply to his
posts! Oh well.

Unfortunately, in M$ OE 6.0, I can not block "message bodies" which contain
"Ms Maniac X".

(Mail Rules - YES)
(News Rules - NO) ....DRAT!


Montblack

"Montblack" wrote in message
...
Over a month ago Ms Maniac X was KILLFILED by me.

Unfortunately, in M$ OE 6.0, I can not block "message bodies" which
contain "Ms Maniac X".

In February, and again last month, I posted instructions on how to kill his
threads, and any responses to them, using OE 6 news rules.

IN a nutshell, the rule marks all of threads as ignored. Any responses will
also be ignored. This gets tracked by the message ID in the header, not by
the subject line. So it works pretty well.

The next step is to set up a 'view' that will not display ignored threads.

Voila - he's gone from USENET.

Does anyone know how can I make this work in Agent?

"Steve Foley" wrote:
"Montblack" wrote in message
...
Over a month ago Ms Maniac X was KILLFILED by me.

Unfortunately, in M$ OE 6.0, I can not block "message bodies" which
contain "Ms Maniac X".

In February, and again last month, I posted instructions on how to kill
his threads, and any responses to them, using OE 6 news rules.

IN a nutshell, the rule marks all of threads as ignored. Any responses
will also be ignored. This gets tracked by the message ID in the header,
not by the subject line. So it works pretty well.

The next step is to set up a 'view' that will not display ignored
threads.

Voila - he's gone from USENET.

--
Mike Flyin'8
PP-ASEL
Temecula, CA
http://flying.4alexanders.com

wrote in :

Does anyone know how can I make this work in Agent?

Yeah, I know someone who wrote on. I just had a look and it doesn't look
like it's available on the net anymore, but I'm sure he still has copies.


I'll e-mail him for you!

Bertie

"Richard Riley" wrote

I've tried to make some combination of filters work to do this in
Agent, I haven't been able to do so.

W H A A A T ? ? ?

Did you say that Agent could not do something that a Microsoft product (OE)
can do?

I NEVER thought I would hear anyone say that!

Ducking and running, while grinning! :-)
--
Jim in NC

("Steve Foley" wrote)
In February, and again last month, I posted instructions on how to kill
his threads, and any responses to them, using OE 6 news rules.


From Google Groups - March 2, 2007

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:04:13 GMT
("Steve Foley" wrote)

This filter for Outlook Express marks his postings as ignored, and
anythingvfrom 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
withvany responses to him. Using this, Ivdon'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.

(Montblack here)
Thanks Steve, I'll give it a try.


Montblack

For the die-hard computer geeks out there, if you use GNUS on
[X]Emacs, the 'gnus-summary-lower-score function (assigned to
the L key in the article buffer) will do this in a few key strokes;
something like L-f-s-t-ret will lower the score of the original post
and all followups.

That and the automatic scoring which I think is on by default in GNUS,
means I now see 1/10 of the total articles on Usenet and it's now a
pleasure to read and pick through. No more nutty rants by the idiotic
JH nor the followups by his redneck fanboys. No mxsmanic posts of any
kind. Some new new case pops up? No programming needed, just c-k the
post and after a couple of times they quietly drop from sight thanks
to the auto-scoring.
--
"Evolution is God's way of issuing upgrades."

Do you know why farts smell?






























So deaf people can enjoy them too.


--
Geoff
The Sea Hawk at Wow Way d0t Com
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When immigration is outlawed, only outlaws will immigrate.

"Montblack" wrote in
:

Over a month ago Ms Maniac X was KILLFILED by me.

For me, thread volume has dropped to a readable level once again -
with him (somewhat) gone.

I am truely amazed at how many quotes I see where people still reply
to his posts! Oh well.

Unfortunately, in M$ OE 6.0, I can not block "message bodies" which
contain "Ms Maniac X".

(Mail Rules - YES)
(News Rules - NO) ....DRAT!


Get yourself a decent newsreader, then..

Even disregarding the killfile capability of OE, it's a crap way to read
groups compared to Forte Agent or Xnews.





Bertie

"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote

Even disregarding the killfile capability of OE, it's a crap way to read
groups compared to Forte Agent or Xnews.

I love how opinionated and loyal people get, when it comes to software.

OK, bertie, explain to a person who has had some exposure to Forte Agent,
but not a lot, why, and what features make it so superior than OE.
--
Jim in NC