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When I see the current Linux vs. Solaris "discussion", I think
it may be a revenge to cross post this thread to those people who
gave us the last disturbance ..... if the result would not be
worse than the 'Linux vs. Solaris "discussion"' itself.

Unfortunately, I believe the latter is the case, so it is only
a revenge dream.....

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The invasions of barbarians into the newsgroups does seem to be increasing
exponentially these days. I've taken to adding people to my kill file,
something I never did before. (But now I wonder why I waited so long.
It is particularly effective against crackpots in the science newsgroups.
Although one still has the foolish people that reply to the crackpot.)

So perhaps it is time to start a how do you filter the newsgroup. Looking
via google for kill file information I see that there are a number of
other solutions out there. Do we have anyone using these kind of features?

I'm still using trn to read news. My comp.unix.solaris kill file now
includes /soc\.culture\.jewish/h:j to ignore the last disturbance and
in includes /anglicam.org/f:j to ignore the same person with multiple
user names.
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Should the Solaris FAQ contain recommended Kill file entries?

Casper

Quote:> Should the Solaris FAQ contain recommended Kill file entries?

The types of people who earn their way into our kill files are the same
ones who would be only too happy to sue for libel.

        No, please don't do that. Crossposting will only bring in
        more kooks. So, whatever you do, please don't crosspost.

-am     ? 2003

Quote:> Should the Solaris FAQ contain recommended Kill file entries?

Rather, is there a way to not only kill, but totally remove some posts
(from view)? I use gnus, and as far as I know I only can mark posts
as killed (marked with X), but cannod hide them from view.

There are a couple of "unmentionables" here I could remove from my
sight.

P.S. Those with brains - please do not respond. No matter how much
     they annoy - do not respond!

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Quote:

>    No, please don't do that. Crossposting will only bring in
>    more kooks. So, whatever you do, please don't crosspost.

Please realize that the grown-ups in this group, when refering to
barbarians, crackpots, kooks, foolish people etc., they talk, among
others, about you.

And now be a good boy and go away.

 -ooo- Andy

Add (gnus-expunge "X") to your KILL file. It will hide the articles marked
with "X".

Bye, Dragan

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Hahahaha. Poor retard am_is_not didn't even know he was it. This is too
funny.

My sympathies with the "grown ups" of this group. I didn't want to indulge
in any flame war with anyone, but that * Rich Teer started this whole
thing. He flamed me when for no reason. Other kooks joined in. Well, I think
it is time that hoodlums like Rich Teer, Anthony Mandic and Shawn (all three
are probably the same person) realize that they can't be bullies. This is a
free forum. Respect begets respect.

[Dragan Cvetkovic]:

you can also type "x" to remove these and already read articles from
view.  also, you should use SCORE files rather than KILL.  I type L a
s p quite often...  (lower score of author (identified by substring)
permanently).

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Maybe something along the lines of

*) How can I improve the signal to noise ratio in comp.unix.solaris?
        Be a grown-up, don't reply to people that use the wrong tone of
        voice, or try to bate you with false or misleading comments. With
        a pointer to usual links on how to behave.
#) How can I get my newsreader to ignore posters who are not grown up?
        I don't know enough to answer this one. But my start was
        For example, if one wants to ignore thread that is being crosspossed
        to  soc.culture.jewish one can add /soc\.culture\.jewish/h:j to your
        kill file. If one finds everyone at foo.fsu.edu worth ignoring
        one can add /foo\.fsu\.edu/f:j to your kill file.
%) Or maybe just include links to faq's on kill files.

I think it has gotten bad enough that it is worth a mention. But I wouldn't
be upset if it was decided to be off topic and omitted. But I did want
to know what others are doing about it. I learned something about score
files from today's posts.
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What's your beef with the aforementioned??

What I find to be _extremely_ effective is the following entry in my
slrn Score file:

[*]
Score: -9999
Xref: .*:.*:.*:.*:.*

Basically: for all newsgroups, if there is an Xref: header that
references five or more newsgroups, the article is killed. Never to be
seen by me.

Remarkably effective -- there's an awful lot of flamewars that I miss
out on. (And if I see something starting on a single newsgroup, I
generally killfile the subject. If somebody seems to be generally
clueless, they go into the bit bucket too.)

Quote:> I'm still using trn to read news. My comp.unix.solaris kill file now
> includes /soc\.culture\.jewish/h:j to ignore the last disturbance and
> in includes /anglicam.org/f:j to ignore the same person with multiple
> user names.

If you don't want to see messages crossposted from any other newsgroup,
just filter on 'Xref: .*:.*' (where .* is your filter's mechanism for
matching an arbitrary number of any character.) slrn does a very nice
job of allowing flexible regexps -- eg, I could tell slrn to killfile
all articles posted to two or more newsgroups, unless the other one
happens to be semi-on-topic (eg: comp.sys.sun.admin and
comp.unix.solaris).

HTH,

Stuart.
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