GardenBanter.co.uk - View Single Post - follow up to: filtering pest(s) with agent newsreader ?

20-03-2006, 12:48 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 21:52:41 +0000, wrote
(in message ):

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 21:03:01 +0000, VX
wrote:

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:35:20 +0000, wrote

September 1 to March 16: +/- 20,103 posts.

Filtering at 65+ lines didn't catch many. Changing to 49+ lines
dropped nonsense to 12,826 messages.

For those using Agent, it does allow one to sort by number of lines so
the short messages are together to highlight and delete. Obviously,
this is going to catch many useful posts.

Whilst appearances may occasionally suggest otherwise, newsgroup flooding
is
done by intelligent computer-savvy people who are perfectly capable of
reading your post!

And your point is what? Don't you think the "intelligent
computer-savvy people" already know all the tricks one uses to filter
them?

Sorry if I offended you, it wasn't my intention.

"They" may know all the tricks but there are quite a number of different
options that could be tried (which- please note- I am not listing here in
this newsgroup). They didn't know which you were using until you posted it
publicly and suggested others use it too, thus making it likely to be altered
in future to get round this. That's my point. Possibly you didn't notice but
someone else pointed this out also.

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