begin oe_protect.scr
Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ B Gruff ] on Saturday 22 July 2006 13:55 \__
>
>> On Saturday 22 July 2006 12:42 Brad wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 05:06:07 +0000, Martha Adams wrote:
>>>
>>>> The Schestowitz problem is basically, that spinning off posts like
>>>> a July 4 pinwheel, Schestowitz must be incredibly active and
>>>> productive; or, he's not accomplishing so much after all because
>>>> his posts are shallow, trivial, and repeat information available
>>>> in better form elsewhere. Obviously, for Schestowitz, the
>>>> second option is the one in effect. The remedy is simple and
>>>> while I believe almost anybody here can do it easily, I'll
>>>> outline it anyway. I'm working presently in Microsoft Outlook
>>>> Express.
>>>>
>>>> Click on Tools at the top of the window; choose Message
>>>> Rules, choose Block Senders List. Probably it will be empty.
>>>> Now add 'newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx', into the window
>>>> there. Schestowitz isn't sending me any emails, so I chose
>>>> the option, 'News Messages.'
>>>
>>> Hmmm, the above process is for blocking (plonking) a usenet poster in MS
>>> Outlook Express. A quick header check confirms this. This could lead one
>>> to conclude that you Martha, are nothing more than a wintroll, posting to
>>> a Linux newsgroup.
>>> The process to accomplish this in the Linux based usenet newsreader Pan is
>>> this:
>>> Click on <Articles>, Click on <Plonk Author>, be sure and check <Never
>>> Expire>, Click on <Add and Rescore>
>>>
>>> And Lo, no more Martha Adams. Now COLA is a much better place.
>>> Goodbye Martha Adams.
>>>
>>> PLONK
>>
>> Ah - Knode is less refined - click Scoring=>Lower_score_for_author, and it
>> gets filtered out..... don't get an automatic *PLONK* though.
>
>
> CTRL+L (with the offensive author in focus) achieves this quickly. By
> default, the rule expires after a month.
For slrn, just press 'k' with the offending post selected, and then
choose the appropriate option (author) and select group or all groups
and give a period.
As the scorefile is plain text, you can edit it to mess around with
headers, put simple regexes in, and so on. M-1-k gets the scorefile up
in $EDITOR.
>
>
>> I believe that OE has another innovation as well - places the cursor at the
>> top of quoted text?
>
>
> There's QuoteFix to address this design bug. Actually, I blogged about this
> issue just a few days ago... FWIW: <
> http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2006/07/19/outlook-discourages-email/
>>. I personally opine that Thunderbird, once loaded with extensions, is
> better than Microsoft Outlook. YMMV.
To be honest, pretty much everything is better than outlook.
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