Posted by Gene E. Bloch on 05/16/06 19:14

"NoNoBadDog!" <nospam@mymail.net> wrote in
news:KsmdnXEOIb3M3fTZnZ2dnUVZ_vadnZ2d@hawaiiantel.net:

>
> "Gene E. Bloch" <hamburger@NOT_SPAM.invalid> wrote in message
> news:Xns97C495875EDB9Astrolabe@127.0.0.1...

>> My only question on that paragraph is, how do you create a filter
>> to distinguish "the ignorant and stupid that post to various
>> groups" from "the intelligent and knowledgable that post to
>> various groups"?
>>
>>> Bobby
>>
>> Enough of this - let's just argue about top and bottom posting
>> :-)
>>
>> NO! I'm only kidding!
>>
>> Gino
>>
>> --
>> Gene E. Bloch (Gino) ... letters617blochg3251
>> (replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")
>
> Gene;
>
> Please forgive the vagueness of my post. I filter by poster,
> by the
> posters IP address (if poster has static IP), and by
> keyword...such as Free" and "make money" and "This worked for
> me"...the usual headers for all the spammers and brain-dead parrot
> people.
>
> Bobby

Thanks for the clarification.

Funny thing about newsreaders and how to set them up: it's a *very*
individual thing (duh!).

I don't plonk or filter any more, because it never seemed to do much
for me. I just skip posts that are obvious spam or whatever, and to
tell the truth, I sometimes read (and even post in) flame wars. They
can fascinate me; I guess it's a touch of masochism :-)

I guess if I read a totally huge NG, I'd have to do more than I do
to ease the burden, but I'm OK with my methods (or lack thereof)
even in microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter, which isn't tiny ;-0

Thanks to slow brain function, I just noticed that I'm pretty OT
here, so I'll stop further posting in this subthread, except in case
of emergency :-)

Gino

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