Dan Espen wrote:
Brooklyn1 writes:

On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 21:19:25 -0800, "Bob F"
wrote:

Dan Espen wrote:
"David Hare-Scott" writes:

I have just got a new machine that doesn't natively come with a
news client so I am faced with buying and setting one up on it,
or not.

As other posters have already mentioned,
there are plenty of free Usenet clients.
I'm using GNUS, (part of Emacs).

There's even "Google Groups". Not really a Usenet client,
but it will get you here.

Anyway, I've always looked forward to your posts and you never
disappoint.

If you find something online that you like better, please
come back and tell us about it.

Sorry, that kill files are all that we have.
I'm sure the guys at Bell Labs that dreamed this up never
anticipated the spammers and trolls, or the idiots.

No kill files available on most online forums I've seem.

Is that English... do you mean no kill files 'are' available?

The above reads fine to me.

Usenet does not supply killfiles, killfiles are available on
newsreaders, typically the free news readers do not have killfile
ability.

I can think of at least 3 free news readers with kill files.
Just so happens to be all 3 I've used.


I've never used a newsreader without killfile capability.
Not that I've used them all.


However there's really no need to use a killfile at
rec.gardens, spam is very rare, and posts are rather sparse, often
days pass with no posts... and it's pretty easy to not read posts
from those posters you'd rather not read, just delete those posts
unread.

The signal to noise ratio hasn't been bad lately.
But that could be my kill files in action...