WaltS48 wrote: > On 08/30/2016 08:28 AM, Arnie Goetchius wrote: >> 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. > > > I believe the headers still download and then get deleted from the > newsgroup in your SeaMonkey. > > What does your filter log indicate? > > > I think you are correct. Here is what a recent entry in the filter log shows. I have hidden the real information:
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