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Access via Google
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Hill writes On 8 Mar, 15:18, "La Puce" wrote: On 8 Mar, 14:59, "Dave Hill" wrote: Just wondering if anyone else has to access this group via Google? I do. Why? Just wondering if there is any way to set a Killfile , I find that a lot of the things I could do in the past you can't do with Google David Hill This is what it says on a couple of sites David ================================================== There are many web-based news services out there, including Google http://groups.google.com, NewsRanger http://www.newsranger.com, and so forth. For a complete listing, visit http://www.newsreaders.com. These are usually free services, and have the advantage of being complete and timely. They are searchable, and many people prefer to use them instead of a regular news service and separate reader, especially if the newsfeed offered by their ISP is slow or incomplete. The drawback is that they don't have filtering capabilities. From what I can see, there is no method for filtering out the posts you do not wish to see in web-based newsreaders. You can use the advanced search options to retrieve, say, all posts made to a specific group, but *without* specific words in them, such as "ninnyboy". If you use Google groups because your news server isn't very good, you may want to try contacting your ISP and telling them you're unhappy with their news service and that they need to beef it up ... or get a different ISP ... or sign up for a good service such as NewsGuy (relatively cheap). Otherwise, you're stuck without filtering, and have to do it "manually" by just skipping past the posts you don't wish to see. ================================================== ======== Or why not get something free like Agent or another newsreader? I wouldn't be without my killfile ability though some people tend to leave in the whole of the message text that they are replying to, which kind of defeats the object Janet -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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