Re: CS garbage

Steven de Mena wrote:
> "Help keep Steve 'Clueless'" <Steven.de.Mena@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1127694425.836070.314920@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Raving Loonie wrote:
> >> Steven de Mena wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > Can someone give me a list of posters who post this Cheryl Studer crap
> >> > so I
> >> > can killfile them all? They keep popping up and I am now confused who
> >> > is
> >> > who and what is real and what is forged, etc. Ugh.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> >
> >> > Steve


> > You may have to use a different news reader program to do this. There
> > are lots of *free* good ones.
> >
> > BTW, the email address I am posting this with is real. I just created
> > it.
> >
> > If you would like it, I would be happy to surrender it to you.
> >
> > Raving Loonie
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the info. Currently I am using Outlook Express 6. It is OK and
> I am used to the layout so much it is hard to change. (I use it for reading
> and posting text only, I use other programs for posting and downloading
> binaries). I just wish OE 6 had a more sophisticated rules engine and
> allowed one to filter on more header fields. Maybe someone has an add-on
> out there that is beefier. For now I just have a bunch of key phrases
> configured to block.
>
> I think I have enough email addresses for now, but thanks. I have a gmail
> one I think I have used twice.
>

- o.k. ... I will let this one die, forgotten (too personal)

I continue to use it because I still don't know that you have/haven't
filtered me.

There are a couple of other possibilities for you. I understand your
usage of OE for text and a different news reader for binaries.

1) Although I haven't explored them yet, there are some *free*
text-only news servers out there that one can both post to and read
from. This would allow you to keep your channels saturate with the
binaries whilst working the discussions independently ... I find
Google groups to be very convenient and the 'noise' tolerable ...
although with some groups that I participate in, its becoming difficult
to detect the signal within the sea of noise !!!!

For example, [rec.music.classical] is beginning to go that way. ...

2) It would seem as if you are heavily into filtering. ... 'Ranking'
filters might help ( ... sorry, I don't use filters!) ??? Anyone else
have experience with it?

Yet, if I were to heavily filter what I perused, I would use two or
more News Readers with different sets of filiters so that I would also
have some awareness of what I was missing. ... scanning the situation
at different levels of detail.

So much of this 'kill file' stuff is portrayed in negatives. r.m.c.r.
is a large group with lots of posters actively involved. Social
interaction is part of NG life. When many people are invovled and there
isn't filtering, the number of postings can overwhelm and confuse.

... A genuine impediment to the Usenet concept. It's not like being
in a room with many people talking simultaneously. I tend to see each
person equally weighted according to their frequency of posting.

Thus using multiple filters in a "Time Serial" manner is a solid issue.
It helps to build larger and more diverse NG's for everyone.

3) Take a look at ' Hamster ' ...

See http://lightning.prohosting.com/~tbates/gravity/hamster.html#what

RL

btw, please let me know if I am filtered or not. ... It's a PITA to
switch memberships.

The "long" answer is you can filter what you read easily and
effectively many different ways from Sunday.

The cost of doing this is the learning curve, beforehand. If you can
hack it, 'Hamster' is prhaps your solution.

Does anyone here, use it ?


> Steve

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