Daniel wrote:
> On 29/08/2016 11:43 PM, David H. Durgee wrote:
>> F Murtz wrote:
>>> F Murtz wrote:
>>>> Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
>>>>> F Murtz wrote:
>>>>>> EE wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have seen other nuisances on some of these newsgroups, and I found
>>>>>>> that filtering whatever is in the From: line and setting the
>>>>>>> action to
>>>>>>> "Mark as read" and "Ignore thread" works.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> But if you ignore thread do you miss all the legitimate posters ?
>>>
>>> I am probably a bit muddled with the above, the problem is that if you
>>> do any of these things he just starts a new thread then a new one,then a
>>> new one, usually misleading and then You open it and find the same
>>> interminable rubbish
>>> I am not the only poster with a problem with this poster, it is
>>> universal.
>>> you have to spend a lot of time with the K button but it is annoying,
>>> which seem to be his purpose, He can not believe he is doing any good,it
>>> started a long while ago about some problem with the establishment on
>>> the medical treatment of his mother and most people would have read the
>>> first post with a modicum of interest but it has developed into many
>>> months of non stop posts almost the same.
>>>>>
>>>>> Are we talking about a legitimate thread hijacked by a spammer, or a
>>>>> spam thread started by a spammer to which no sane person would
>>>>> reply? In
>>>>> the second case, kill the whole thread.
>>>>>
>>>> No, we are talking about A poster who starts interminable threads (Your
>>>> second case)no one does answer them, but you have to wade past each
>>>> thread of his either killing or ignoring often opening to see what
>>>> it is
>>>> about then you find it is the Winnipeg poster and it gets very annoying
>>>> I would like to be able to not see any thread started by him but can
>>>> not
>>>> find a way to filter as he keeps changing to dodge kill files.
>>
>> Does the spammer always use particular unique phrases that nobody else
>> is likely to ever use? It should be possible to create a filter that
>> searches the body for particular phrases and activate if two or more
>> phrases peculiar to this annoyance are found. Depending upon how likely
>> you deem it that the filter could activate in error you might want to
>> simply mark the post as read as opposed to deleting it or perhaps move
>> it to a suspect folder for later consideration.
>>
>> Dave
>
> As we're dealing with UseNet, I don't thing the " move it to a suspect
> folder for later consideration." is an option. "mark the post as read"
> or deleting (which effectively does the same thing) would be my choose.
>
I use "Delete" and it is my understanding that it effectively deletes
any messages from the newsgroup download, in my case the download from
"eternal september". Please, someone, correct me if that is not correct.
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