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Re: Blocked Senders

  • Subject: Re: Blocked Senders
  • From: Bobbie <bobbie4R3MOV3TH1S@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:54:01 GMT
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Shaw Residential Internet
  • References: <s6uXg.4432$HP.1764@trndny08>
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:32:24 +0000, Martha Adams wrote:

> I remember what usenet was twenty years ago.  Its going public
> has been a social disaster, I think.  For one thing, the today's
> topic environment is well fitted to drive away rational people who
> have useful and meaningful things to say.  I'm not awfully
> impressed by Microsoft's products; but I notice that my XP offers
> a simple resource to deal with some of this unhealthy and
> morbidly conceived noise.
> 
> 1) Click Messages, click Block Sender.  The Sender whose
> message you have your pointer on is blocked; and the system
> gives you the opportunity to remove all that sender's ...doings,
> from your messages list.
> 
> 2) Click on Tools, Message Rules, Blocked Senders List, gives
> you your current List for review (good practice).
> 
> My Blocked Senders list amounts to two presently:
> 
>  -  newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
>  -  "Ray Schitzmepantz" swilliams5656@xxxxxxxxxxx (just added)
> 
> I can skip over much of the rubbish here, because it seems to me,
> those who post it fail to recognize how very much their chosen
> "user" names say about themselves.  Further, they don't recognize
> the messages they write as rich information resources concerning
> their individual mental pathologies.
> 
> That can be a fun little clinical game, if I'm in the mood for it.  But
> generally, it's nice to have an effective automatic resource to
> avoid the most monotonous and repetitive posters here.
> 
> Cheers -- Martha Adams


Do me a favour and add me to your 'killfile'.
I'd consider it to be a privilege.

-- 
Bobbie the Triple Killer
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email Bobbie @ bobbie4R3MOV3TH1S@xxxxxxx
remember to 'remove this'

Bobbie recently switched to Ubuntu 6.
Why? Cause he can, that's why.



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