Posted by sandy58 on 09/01/07 22:26

On Sep 1, 10:29 am, Jordan <lu...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> The MI5 dude drove me to desperation the other day... besides
> reporting all his posts to Google, I figured out how to work a kill
> file in Google Groups! Yay!
>
> If you're already using a "real" newsreader this probably doesn't
> apply to you, you already know how to use a killfile. For those of you
> on Google Groups, alt.video.dvd will have been pretty much useless for
> some time... until now!
>
> Step 1) Get Firefox (yeah, like you don't have it already)
>
> http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
>
> Step 2) Get Greasemonkey
>
> http://www.greasespot.net/
>
> Step 3) Get the Greasemonkey killfile script
>
> http://www.penney.org/googleGroups.user.js
>
> Step 4) Activate the script
> Tools -> Greasemonkey -> Install User Script -> Install
>
> Step 5) Go to Google Groups, users will now have an "Ignore User" link
> next to their name.
> If you view in Topic List view, each post will have a gray "X" next to
> the time of the post.
> Clicking either will add that user to the killfile.
> Refresh the screen and the posts for everyone you clicked on will
> magically vanish.
>
> Before:http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/5340/beforedl6.jpg
>
> After:http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/5195/afterwb0.jpg
>
> My only beef with it is that it's user based rather than subject based
> so it's not possible to block entire threads. If someone replies to,
> say, one of those idiotic MI5 posts then you'll still see the reply.
> You just won't see the original message.
>
> You're welcome!
>
> - Jordan

Thanks for the tip, Jordan. It has got rid of most of MI5 shit but
only goes back so far? Is that normal? Even that sounds good to me. :-)

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