Re: Enough


"Chuck" <no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1199072840_15295@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Ken Fowler wrote:
I hate to totally block people who arguably have some useful things to
post
to the newsgroup. But the content on the thread about travelling waves
versus standing waves has become so dominated by one person that there is
no way to end it except by filtering all messages to
rec.radio.amateur.antennas to eliminate the dominant poster. So I have
not
only blocked articles from his web site, I am blocking any article which
contains his name. So if you reply to him, I am sorry but I will not be
able to see your remarks. I know that no one is likely to lose any sleep
about my actions. From now on, I hope there will be articles about
antenna
construction and modelling because that will probably be all that I am
able
to read. 73.

Ken Fowler, KO6NO

Hello Ken,

From your comment, it appears that you are seeing all new posts to the
group in chronological order. That can be very frustrating.

You may not be aware that most newsreaders will sort messages by thread if
so instructed. That way an entire thread consisting of even thousands of
posts will appear in your newsreader as a single header (unexpanded).
There are usually no more than a few new threads per day on the newsgroup
so you can choose which threads you want to follow without seeing any
posts to the threads that don't interest you. Sort of like scanning the
headlines. When you see a thread of interest, you can expand it and see
the headers of all the posts in that thread.

You can't control which threads are posted to the newsgroup, but you can
make it easier to read only those that interest you.

It appears that his source is http://www.giganews.com which is web based.
They probably have options for sorting by date, thread etc. I think you are
correct. He should structure his viewing on giganews in such as a way as to
only view the threads of interest. He does noy use a normal 'newsreader'
like most usenet vets are using.


.

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