Posted by PapaBear on 01/04/08 13:57

"David Nebenzahl" <nobody@but.us.chickens> wrote in message
news:477d950c$0$2935$822641b3@news.adtechcomputers.com...
> On 1/3/2008 4:52 PM Sanukk spake thus:
>
>> But in all seriousness stand-alone apps that are designed to do a
>> specific
>> task will always perform better at that task than an app designed for
>> another task with some extra stuff bolted on, eg e-mail clients that 'do
>> a
>> bit of' newsgroups too, such as M$ LookOut and Firefox.
>
> I think you meant to type "Thunderbird" there, and I disagree: Tbird is a
> pretty damn good email *and* news client, with good filtering (so I'm
> told; I never use it; don't like to look at Usenet through
> killfile-colored glasses). I wonder how it stacks up against Agent, which,
> I'm also told, can actually filter out the MI5 shit.

I don't have any problem filtering the MI5 junk with Outlook Express
although it takes a little ingenuity to devise the message rule. Enter each
of the letters in "MI5 Persecution" as a word with the "and" modifier
between each. You could probably leave out a few of the letters but the '5'
is important. Then you must 'apply' it if you want to remove former posted
messages, or you could just delete them, or reset the group so all new
headers are downloaded with the above message rule active. No offense
intended to the MI5 person. :)

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