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Who's the dickhead
What the hell is going on here ?. My mail box is full of some idiot's
childish posting in this group. |
Who's the dickhead
"Jana" wrote in message ups.com... What the hell is going on here ?. My mail box is full of some idiot's childish posting in this group. It's the internet equivalent of graffiti - Or less than Graffiti as there is no message, just aren't I clever to waste all these peoples time! If there was some relevant political or social message I might quietly admire them but as it is... - Yes Dickheads! Slatts |
Who's the dickhead
On 25 Feb 2006 02:47:12 -0800, "Jana"
wrote: What the hell is going on here ?. My mail box is full of some idiot's childish posting in this group. I suspect it was the veggie mob |
Who's the dickhead
Jana wrote:
What the hell is going on here ?. My mail box is full of some idiot's childish posting in this group. It's a program based on Markov probability functions. Richard. -- "Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." Gene Spafford (1992) |
Yawn - re Who's the dickhead
In article , Janet Baraclough
writes The message from Dave Poole contains these words: Most of us can see it coming and therefore stop the crap arriving No problems here. It gives all legitimate users an incentive to get a proper newsreader and/or learn how to use it, which is a good thing for this newsgroup. Just out of curiosity, Janet. Or anyone else, for that matter. What criteria do you use to dump these? They're not X-posted, have random subject headers, don't have a common author and I'm slightly reluctant to kill based on the number of lines (many are as low as 75, and some even down to 50 - which would mean losing regular posts). -- Flower Bobdew South Facing Garden South West: UK |
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"Flower Bobdew" wrote in message ... In article , Janet Baraclough writes The message from Dave Poole contains these words: Most of us can see it coming and therefore stop the crap arriving No problems here. It gives all legitimate users an incentive to get a proper newsreader and/or learn how to use it, which is a good thing for this newsgroup. Just out of curiosity, Janet. Or anyone else, for that matter. What criteria do you use to dump these? They're not X-posted, have random subject headers, don't have a common author and I'm slightly reluctant to kill based on the number of lines (many are as low as 75, and some even down to 50 - which would mean losing regular posts). -- Flower Bobdew South Facing Garden South West: UK I don't have any particular filters - it's filtered out automatically by good old nin. Chris S |
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On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 20:07:19 -0000, Chris S wrote:
They're not X-posted, have random subject headers, don't have a common author and I'm slightly reluctant to kill based on the number of lines They appear as lone messages, not part of a thread. The subjects are relatively long and lower case. Rarely, if ever, is the subject started with an uppercase letter. I don't have any particular filters - it's filtered out automatically by good old nin. NIN gets the handle on them fairly quickly but I still got a few hundred this morning. -- Cheers Dave. pam is missing e-mail |
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In article , Flower Bobdew
writes Just out of curiosity, Janet. Or anyone else, for that matter. What criteria do you use to dump these? They're not X-posted, have random subject headers, don't have a common author and I'm slightly reluctant to kill based on the number of lines (many are as low as 75, and some even down to 50 - which would mean losing regular posts). I go to the bottom of them, select all, scanning quickly every title in case a short proper message is there, then just remove. Easy with Turnpike. Not sure about other newsreaders. Doesn't take more than a couple of seconds. Janet -- Janet Tweedy Amersham Gardening Association http://www.amersham-gardening.net |
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"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message ... The message from Janet Tweedy contains these words: In article , Flower Bobdew writes Just out of curiosity, Janet. Or anyone else, for that matter. What criteria do you use to dump these? My newsreader usually filters out most of them before I download my groups. Otherwise I go to the bottom of them, select all, scanning quickly every title in case a short proper message is there, then just remove. Easy with Turnpike. Not sure about other newsreaders. Doesn't take more than a couple of seconds. Ditto. Janet Come on then you two gigabrains, how do you scan *quickly* every title. I got a couple of thousand duff messages. I know us lot in Yorkshire are not renowned for being quick but......... |
Yawn - re Who's the dickhead
"Rupert" wrote:
I know us lot in Yorkshire are not renowned for being quick All you need to do is select the beginning of the junk, then scroll down. Your brain is really good at spotting patterns, even if they're going by quickly. I can do it, and I'm in rural (New) York. Then, assuming you're using windoze, hold down the shift key and click the last one. Delete however your mail proggy does it (shift+del key works for me), and they're gone. Of course, the loons who do this sort of thing are only looking for attention, and any sort will do. Sad, really... Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G |
Yawn - re Who's the dickhead
In article , Rupert
writes Come on then you two gigabrains, how do you scan *quickly* every title. I got a couple of thousand duff messages. I know us lot in Yorkshire are not renowned for being quick but......... As you go down the list (at least on Turnpike) you can see the length of the subject - it stands out a mile when you see a short subject of one or two words. Whipping down the page is just a matter of scrolling down. Turnpike has some drawbacks but this isn't one of them :) Janet -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
Yawn - re Who's the dickhead
In article , Janet Tweedy
writes In article , Flower Bobdew writes Just out of curiosity, Janet. Or anyone else, for that matter. What criteria do you use to dump these? They're not X-posted, have random subject headers, don't have a common author and I'm slightly reluctant to kill based on the number of lines (many are as low as 75, and some even down to 50 - which would mean losing regular posts). I go to the bottom of them, select all, scanning quickly every title in case a short proper message is there, then just remove. Easy with Turnpike. Indeed. I was just hoping there was a way of avoiding downloading them. [Besides switching news supplier.] I've just asked in the TP newsgroup and there isn't really a catch-all based on the headers available. Aside from utilising the "/^X\-Complaints\-To: /h" which appears with each batch. [You can use TP's Connect window to see the obvious impending avalanche, stop the download, sample a header, and then reconnect.] Not sure about other newsreaders. Doesn't take more than a couple of seconds. As I said, its only been particularly annoying here because I'm still on standard snail-up. When I switch to a broadband connection soon it'll become nothing more than a minor irritation. -- Flower Bobdew South Facing Garden South West: UK |
Yawn - re Who's the dickhead
Select the beginning of the junk???
Scroll down??? How do you get access to your news server to do this? Or are you saying download the headers, then select and delete from them. I don't want to download ANY of this garbage. Not even the headers. I don't want to scroll through 300 headers looking for a genuine post. I don't want to keep hitting the get next 300 headers button. Given that there are over 5000 posts on my news server for the next 7 days, I will be going to google groups and looking there. Perhaps there is an argument for genuine posts here to have a header [On topic] or [NG] not garbage to highlight proper posts in deference to the anarchists rubbish. Dave who doesn't think they are looking for any sort of attention. |
Yawn - re Who's the dickhead
wrote in message oups.com... Select the beginning of the junk??? Scroll down??? How do you get access to your news server to do this? Or are you saying download the headers, then select and delete from them. I don't want to download ANY of this garbage. Not even the headers. I don't want to scroll through 300 headers looking for a genuine post. I don't want to keep hitting the get next 300 headers button. Given that there are over 5000 posts on my news server for the next 7 days, I will be going to google groups and looking there. Perhaps there is an argument for genuine posts here to have a header [On topic] or [NG] not garbage to highlight proper posts in deference to the anarchists rubbish. Dave who doesn't think they are looking for any sort of attention. You can always get 1000 headers per update if that's any help. |
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