even the dreaded gb is better than that. I speak from experience

In message , Janet Tweedy
writes
On 20/12/2012 15:05, Martin wrote:
With Thunderbird, how do you automatically delete/ignore messages that
are cross posted to a user definable number of groups?

I found with Turnpike certain authors/posters would be the ones that
cross posted/flamed so you could killfile them automatically, still
trying to work out how to do this in TB
You can actually specify for each newsgroup a rule to kill any post to
more than "n" newsgroups where "n" is user defined. I kill anything
cross posted on most groups.
--
bert

In message , Janet Tweedy
writes
On 20/12/2012 15:06, Martin wrote:
EOW tomorrow.

ah well, better do a back up then and eat the chocolates that are
waiting to be wrapped
Why on earth do they think it'sd tomorrow. surely under the gregorian
calnedar things changed so how do they know it'd the date it is and not
2 months later or earlier? Good job i cashed in my Nectar points!
Because it isn't. It's a misinterpretation of what was actual forecast.
And if I'm wrong you can have all my nectar points also.
--
bert

In message ,
Janet writes
As of 3pm this afternoon demon won't connect me to my only newsgroup in
the world so i am clanking through this via Google groups which is THE
most tortuous procedure I have ever experienced but I WILL NOT BE
BEATEN
After many man years I kicked Demon into touch earlier this year and
went with the oft maligned BT. Looking at the shambolic state of
affairs with Demons new e-mail stem and now news I think I did the right
thing.
--
bert

On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:41:39 +0100, Martin wrote:

Oo-er missus, things can't be that bad. Is this the beginning of the
end of the civilised world as we know it?

Hasn't happened here yet...

Use
news.eternal-september.org

or pay £10/annum and use
news.individual.net

Agreed. BTW news.individual.net is EUR10/year or about eight squid not
ten. Very effective spam filering on news.idividual.net as well, like I
only see spam when someone reposts or follows up to it.

--
Cheers
Dave.

On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:38:56 +0100, Dave Liquorice
wrote:

On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:41:39 +0100, Martin wrote:

Oo-er missus, things can't be that bad. Is this the beginning of the
end of the civilised world as we know it?

Hasn't happened here yet...


It's not raining here, I assume I've died and gone to heaven.

Use
news.eternal-september.org

or pay £10/annum and use
news.individual.net

Agreed. BTW news.individual.net is EUR10/year or about eight squid not
ten. Very effective spam filering on news.idividual.net as well, like I
only see spam when someone reposts or follows up to it.


+1, news.individual.net filters so well we forget how bad it can be
otherwise.

Sacha wrote in
:

On 2012-12-20 17:45:31 +0000, Martin said:

On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:30:35 -0500, S Viemeister
wrote:

On 12/20/2012 12:10 PM, Janet Tweedy wrote:
On 20/12/2012 14:34, S Viemeister wrote:
To set up filters -
Click 'message'
Scroll down to 'create filter from message'

To kill (and never see again) an entire thread - press 'k'

To mark an entire thread as read (but not kill it) press 't'

oh ta, trying to go with logical sequence first I thought filter
was for stuff to stay on the list. How about author?

Yes - you can filter out by author, date, subject, etc.

You can also filter on things you _want_ to see, such as posts by
certain people, or threads in which you have participated.

Now that my niece doesn't no longer lives in Beijing, I've blocked
any posts with Chinese addresses.
Anything with the words 'cheap watches' gets binned, too.

extend that to anything with "cheap"

I think that might be a mistake. People do sometimes post about cheap
plants/seeds/tools etc.

Agree.

Baz

On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:20:36 +0000, bert ] wrote:


After many man years I kicked Demon into touch earlier this year and
went with the oft maligned BT. Looking at the shambolic state of
affairs with Demons new e-mail stem and now news I think I did the right
thing.

I left Demon in 2003 having been with them for around 5 years. It was
the two successive Great News Snaffus that made me start looking for
someone more reliable.

After a couple of abortive trials with other ISPs I moved to Plusnet
who have, in the main been sound. For those that need to take
advantage of it they do have very good support.

They have just launched some interesting competitive packages - 5.99 a
month for 10GB or 9.99 per month for ~unlimited~ usage. They also do
some good phone inclusive deals, one of which i have just moved to.
--
rbel

On 21/12/2012 20:21, rbel wrote:
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:20:36 +0000, bert ] wrote:


After many man years I kicked Demon into touch earlier this year and
went with the oft maligned BT. Looking at the shambolic state of
affairs with Demons new e-mail stem and now news I think I did the right
thing.

I left Demon in 2003 having been with them for around 5 years. It was
the two successive Great News Snaffus that made me start looking for
someone more reliable.

After a couple of abortive trials with other ISPs I moved to Plusnet
who have, in the main been sound. For those that need to take
advantage of it they do have very good support.

They have just launched some interesting competitive packages - 5.99 a
month for 10GB or 9.99 per month for ~unlimited~ usage. They also do
some good phone inclusive deals, one of which i have just moved to.

I second that, they are not the cheapest but one of the best, IMHO.

--
Remember the early bird may catch the worm but the second mouse gets the
cheese.