It's amazing how a little filter tool improves this NG

I agree. I plonked Cliff about a week ago, and it's as if the sun came out through a crappy layer of clouds. Tom

Yeah, and you'll make another step change by filtering anyone who replies to someone named Cliff.

Pete Keillor

Agreed.

I wished I could filter out all the messages crossposted to .cnc and survialism as well.

Nutscrape doesn't do filtering to that level, sadly. Nor am I willing to change my newsreader.

GWE

Adding gunner to the list makes more difference.

Rich

Yes, but I know, like and respect Gunner. He's an awesome dude. He's just been living in the central California sun a little too long, that's all. :-)

GWE

I filter out everything xposted to misc.survivalism.

Works even better.

i

I'm curious. I'd like to filter Cliff, replies to Cliff, Gunner with an OT (but not without an OT) and replies to Gunner OT. Is this possible? I still use Outleak Express, what software should I use?

Karl

But, that's the closest to his home planet...we want it to feel like home for him, we'll miss him when he gets recalled.

"Karl Townsend" wrote in message news:Q1sLf.3131$ snipped-for-privacy@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...

OE can filter on either the e-mail address or the "screen name" or both. It can also eliminate messages with subjects containing "OT -".

I just created a rule in OE for Cliff, but it evidently doesn't get rid of existing messages. Perhaps it will filter out any new ones? Does anyone know ?

Heartily agreed! He is also a fine storyteller and often the first to jump in with an offer to help.

My 'plonk' list is getting rather long - Cliff was the first entry and permanent member. I add and drop others as my tolerance wanes and rises. I do wish I could block on too many crossposts.

Go back to the rule [Tools>Message Rules>News...] and click on "Apply Now". Click on "Select All", Click on "Browse" and select your news server account then click on "OK". Click on "Apply Now", wait for the action to end, then click on "Close" then "OK".

This will cause your rule(s) to be applied retroactively.

Mosaic oh - I mean Mozilla does.

Martin [ showing my age in net years :-) ] Martin Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net NRA LOH & Endowment Member NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder

Grant Erw>

Jim Stewart wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@omsoft.com:

You can.

I have mine set so that anything crossposted to more than five groups disappears. At times I?ve set it to three.

You can killfile anything x-posted to specific groups, specific posters, specific topics, etc..

It will also fix screwed up text wrapping caused by Outlook Express.

Try setting it up based on the number of commas in the "Newsgroups: " header line. Any commas indicate at least one stage of cross-posting. More commas indicate more newsgroups.

In my newsreader, the pattern is ".*,.*,.*" to catch three newsgroups in the cross-post list. (".*" is any number of any character, the commas are literal, and must be present to match.) Of course, this is in a unix-based newsreader, so the rules may be different on a Windows box.

Good Luck, DoN.

D Murphy wrote in news:Xns9773DDFF568A6BW12BU20MU38SY@130.133.1.4:

Thanks for the link. Ive just gotten on it and love it so far.

"Karl Townsend" wrote in news:Q1sLf.3131$ snipped-for-privacy@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net:

The newsreader software of choice: