News Group Filter

I don't suppose there's a filter around that only kills that part of a
thread after it's been Butt-headed?

Offbreed <offbreed_106@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:7OidneV-jO3PZZPZnZ2dnUVZ_tmdnZ2d@scnresearch.com:

> I don't suppose there's a filter around that only kills
> that part of a thread after it's been Butt-headed?

Current topic at news.software.readers (if I understood your Q).

J
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me@tadyatam.invalid wrote:
> Offbreed <offbreed_106@hotmail.com> wrote in
> news:7OidneV-jO3PZZPZnZ2dnUVZ_tmdnZ2d@scnresearch.com:
>
>> I don't suppose there's a filter around that only kills
>> that part of a thread after it's been Butt-headed?
>
> Current topic at news.software.readers (if I understood your Q).

Thanks. What's the thread name?

(To kill a branch of a thread after pcbutts has made his appearance.)

Offbreed wrote:
> I don't suppose there's a filter around that only kills that part of a
> thread after it's been Butt-headed?
A tip I picked up from the groups some time ago was to subscribe to the
alt.usenet.kooks newsgroup, but then set up a news rule that says

Apply this rule after the message arrives, Where the message is on
alt.usenet.kooks newsgroup, Delete it.

What happens then is that anyone who crossposts in kooks (which is mainly
people whose posts have no interest for me - I think pcbutts must be one of
them because I never see his/her posts)

Offbreed <offbreed_106@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:IcydncxoebijPpLZnZ2dnUVZ_tGdnZ2d@scnresearch.com:

> me@tadyatam.invalid wrote:
>> Offbreed <offbreed_106@hotmail.com> wrote in
>> news:7OidneV-jO3PZZPZnZ2dnUVZ_tmdnZ2d@scnresearch.com:
>>
>>> I don't suppose there's a filter around that only kills
>>> that part of a thread after it's been Butt-headed?
>>
>> Current topic at news.software.readers (if I understood
>> your Q).
>
> Thanks. What's the thread name?
>
> (To kill a branch of a thread after pcbutts has made his
> appearance.)
>

Some tips in "Beginnings of a generalised scoring FAQ". There
were 2 or 3 other threads that led to it but I CRS, sorry.

Prob is that good posts may come from the same server. If you
don't mind plucking M-IDs from bozo's post, it's simple:

some kill score:
Message-ID: <blahblah@whatever\.com>
OR (whatever T-bird uses to "OR")
References: <blahblah@whatever\.com>

J
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JIP wrote:
> I think pcbutts must be one of
> them because I never see his/her posts)

I have a filter set for more than 3 xposts, and I usually find out about
a thread when someone "does us a favor" and removes the extra posts.

I'd dislike killing threads because some of them have stuff I'd like to
read. I don't need the branch of a thread that's been hijacked by Butthead.

me@tadyatam.invalid wrote:

> Some tips in "Beginnings of a generalised scoring FAQ". There
> were 2 or 3 other threads that led to it but I CRS, sorry.

I doubted there would be a tool for branch killing as it would require
recording a bunch of reference file numbers, and that would really slow
things down.

Butts is in the kill file, but most of the responses to him are from
people I don't want to killfile.

Offbreed wrote:
> JIP wrote:
>> I think pcbutts must be one of them because I never see his/her posts)
>
> I have a filter set for more than 3 xposts, and I usually find out about
> a thread when someone "does us a favor" and removes the extra posts.
>
> I'd dislike killing threads because some of them have stuff I'd like to
> read. I don't need the branch of a thread that's been hijacked by Butthead.

have you looked into nfilter? i think it's supposed to be able to kill
on any header, so you should be able to kill based on reference rather
than killing the whole thread...

you mentioned you felt that would slow things down too much, but i'm not
sure pcbutts actually appears in that many new threads so barring header
mishaps a single reference should get the entire branch, and old
references can be pruned from the list since threads eventually die
(some faster than others)...

not that i condone ignoring pcbutts... he's one of those rare trolls
where ignoring him actually allows him to do greater harm... sugien, for
all his {whatever it was he had}, was at least fairly benign...

--
"it's not the right time to be sober
now the idiots have taken over
spreading like a social cancer,
is there an answer?"

kurt wismer wrote:

> have you looked into nfilter? i think it's supposed to be able to kill
> on any header, so you should be able to kill based on reference rather
> than killing the whole thread...

I use NFilter and the T-Bird filter. I think NFilter would require
manually entering the message reference, then manually removing it.
Faster and easier to click on the Buttocks, down arrow, shift click, and
hit "M". A one click solution would be nice. A blanket solution would be
even better.

> not that i condone ignoring pcbutts... he's one of those rare trolls
> where ignoring him actually allows him to do greater harm...

Yeah, people who know the subject should not ignore him. People like me,
with minimal expertise, should ignore him.

I don't think he qualifies as a "troll", though. Trolls seek to annoy or
to control, and I don't think most of them actually believe what they
are claiming (discovering what they actually do believe is the key to
their destruction). Buttocks has more in common with the Kooks and
Quacks that claim to have invented the telephone (or the internet <G>)
and actually believes his delusions of adequacy.

Offbreed <offbreed_106@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:3fWdnWBku7IJ3Y_ZRVn-gA@scnresearch.com:

> me@tadyatam.invalid wrote:
>
>> Some tips in "Beginnings of a generalised scoring FAQ".
>> There were 2 or 3 other threads that led to it but I CRS,
>> sorry.
>
> I doubted there would be a tool for branch killing as it
> would require recording a bunch of reference file numbers,
> and that would really slow things down.
>
> Butts is in the kill file, but most of the responses to him
> are from people I don't want to killfile.

I don't know about T-bird.
Branch killing is in Xnews. The M-ID is added automatically but
it's NOT a one-click process.

J
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