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From: Woody on 5 Nov 2009 05:30 J.J. O'Shea <try.not.to(a)but.see.sig> wrote: > On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 16:57:49 -0500, Simon Dobbs wrote > (in article <0001HW.C717A95D0010B58DB02919BF(a)news.newshosting.com>): > > you massive great big prat of a nancy...it was just a thought, just a > comment > > .... > > > > Just killfile the clown and have done. I did, and I'm much happier. I'd be > happier still if more people either kfed him or simply ignored him so that > I'd not see replies to his nonsense. Do you not have autokill on hogwasher? It killfiles a post, and any post that comes from it. Generally when you have a thread that goes to this point, there isn't much point seeing further! An ideal option would be 'autokill for 4 posts or so' - just in case. -- Woody
From: J. J. Lodder on 5 Nov 2009 06:17 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > J.J. O'Shea <try.not.to(a)but.see.sig> wrote: > > > On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 16:57:49 -0500, Simon Dobbs wrote > > (in article <0001HW.C717A95D0010B58DB02919BF(a)news.newshosting.com>): > > > > you massive great big prat of a nancy...it was just a thought, just a > > comment > > > > .... > > > > > > > Just killfile the clown and have done. I did, and I'm much happier. I'd be > > happier still if more people either kfed him or simply ignored him so that > > I'd not see replies to his nonsense. > > Do you not have autokill on hogwasher? It killfiles a post, and any post > that comes from it. Generally when you have a thread that goes to this > point, there isn't much point seeing further! > > An ideal option would be 'autokill for 4 posts or so' - just in case. Newswatcher had a weighted kill. You could give certain posters a large positive weight, so they were visible also in killed threads. To subtle for MacSoup, Jan
From: Ben Shimmin on 5 Nov 2009 08:28 J. J. Lodder <nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl>: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: [...] >> Do you not have autokill on hogwasher? It killfiles a post, and any post >> that comes from it. Generally when you have a thread that goes to this >> point, there isn't much point seeing further! >> >> An ideal option would be 'autokill for 4 posts or so' - just in case. > > Newswatcher had a weighted kill. > You could give certain posters a large positive weight, > so they were visible also in killed threads. slrn's scoring does that sort of thing wonderfully (though not Woody's `kill for four posts', or certainly not without a bit of hackery). b. -- <bas(a)bas.me.uk> <URL:http://bas.me.uk/> `...the Plain English Campaign [...] says some officials only use Latin to make themselves feel important. A Campaign spokesman said the ban might stop people confusing the Latin abbreviation e.g. with the word "egg".'
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 5 Nov 2009 08:43 On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 13:28:09 +0000, Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: >J. J. Lodder <nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl>: >> Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > >[...] > >>> Do you not have autokill on hogwasher? It killfiles a post, and any post >>> that comes from it. Generally when you have a thread that goes to this >>> point, there isn't much point seeing further! >>> >>> An ideal option would be 'autokill for 4 posts or so' - just in case. >> >> Newswatcher had a weighted kill. >> You could give certain posters a large positive weight, >> so they were visible also in killed threads. > >slrn's scoring does that sort of thing wonderfully (though not Woody's >`kill for four posts', or certainly not without a bit of hackery). Agent (Windows) has options for "[]delete filter after [n] days []of inactivity", and a visible inactivity counter, which works nicely. I know some Mac newsreaders have similar, but I don't know which. Cheers - Jaimie -- "Jesus died for our sins. Let us not cheapen his sacrifice by failing to commit any of them."
From: Ben Shimmin on 5 Nov 2009 09:31
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org>: > On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 13:28:09 +0000, Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> > wrote: >>J. J. Lodder <nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl>: >>> Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: >>>> An ideal option would be 'autokill for 4 posts or so' - just in >>>> case. >>> >>> Newswatcher had a weighted kill. >>> You could give certain posters a large positive weight, >>> so they were visible also in killed threads. >> >>slrn's scoring does that sort of thing wonderfully (though not Woody's >>`kill for four posts', or certainly not without a bit of hackery). > > Agent (Windows) has options for "[]delete filter after [n] days []of > inactivity", and a visible inactivity counter, which works nicely. I > know some Mac newsreaders have similar, but I don't know which. In slrn you can set a scorefile entry to expire at a certain date or after N days. That's still not as granular[1] as Woody's suggestion, but there we go. b. [1] I hate using this word in that way. -- <bas(a)bas.me.uk> <URL:http://bas.me.uk/> `...the Plain English Campaign [...] says some officials only use Latin to make themselves feel important. A Campaign spokesman said the ban might stop people confusing the Latin abbreviation e.g. with the word "egg".' |