__/ [ 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.
> 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.
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