RE: I have an idea for "Do we need a replacement group?"

on 4/26/2008 4:23 PM Disco58 said the following:

I don't like forums and have no need for a moderator. I'm doing fine in this newsgroup with my filters. I'll be here when you find out it is not as instantaneous and is lacking in searching features as is a newsgroup.

Things are quiet there right now, but I expect that it will build up over the years, just like rms did.

Well, there'll be at least three of us then.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

I set several filters - unsubscribed in outlook, re-subscribed in Outlook - and poof all gone. You'll loose a few legitimate goolge posts maybe if there even are any - but that's what they get for dealing with a out of control service,

Val Kraut

Christ, you'd think I was suggesting people abandon their wife and kids, o quit modeling altogether. Everyone's bitching about all the spam here, s I thought I'd offer up a possible solution. Excuse me all to hell. Generally I like it here too, but I can't find or figure out any type o filtering that will work. I'm not a computer geek. I don't know wha newsreader I use to get here, or how to figure it out. All I know fo sure is I use IE/ Yahoo as a browser and I scroll down my favorites lis to Rec.Models.Scale, with an address o

and I get here and the top of the page says "Talkabout Network". I've emailed them thre times and gotten no replies. There are no mechanics in place here t filter anything short of my email address. There was a suggestion earl on in the original thread about downloading some filtering program, hi run, add this or that line, etc, etc. That might as well been written i Chinese for all the sense it made to me--like I said, I know shit fro Shinola about computers. If anyone has any real suggestions, that mak real sense, without the smartass comments, I'll be more than willing t listen

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buzz off. you're basically spamming a group not needed. nothing hard about filters.

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I haven't put any involved filters in place, just killfilled the specific addresses it was coming from, and the spam outbreak seems to be tapering off over the past few days.

Pat

I've implemented some filters for specific keywords in the subject line

- like OEM, discount, fake, etc. It's working wonders across all my NG subscriptions.

Make that an even 1/2 dozen

Did the same ,with Thunderbird worked a treat ,Takes five seconds to set up a filter.

Careful; he'll have you spilling your coffee on yourself.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. ;)

waste of good sumatran/jamaican. buzz and flavor.