One of the newsgroups I read has been consistently spammed over the past several weeks, typically 10,000 messages a day. It currently sits at 116,297 messages in my local cache, and it's mind-numbingly slow to do anything with. Recently, it's started crashing.
The messages are 30-50 lines of computer generated gibberish (e.g. Ronald gently slimes the possum while Angie marks her computer), and so they're easy enough to mark as read, but I can't seem to delete them. How can I delete these from the local cache while still retaining the legitimate posts? Furthermore, why is there no ability to filter in the News reader? -- Einstein X. Mystery ---/--\-\--@ ICQ UIN #17112996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----/--\--@ WP, Laurel #47, O.E.S. If you have a question, ask. Otherwise I'll never answer. The only constant in the universe is change. Do you know where your towel is? The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. "I fear that we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve ... " -- Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Dec. 8th, 1941 -- Shamelessly ripped from DennyW's .sig
