Daniel wrote:
Over on one of my UseNet groups, one of the posters wants to become the
greatest poster to that group .... and one of the other posters, who is
currently the greatest poster to that group.
So Poster A will post about anything with the slightest connection to
that group (Actors Birthdays, Deaths, Anniversary, etc) which usually
then draws a post from Poster B telling Poster A to stop Spamming the
group.
I'm sure I have previously pressed 'K' in my SM 2.49.5 to Killfile such
threads ... but they keep coming back or, at least, I think they are
coming back next Birthday, Death Anniversary, whatever.
Are the new posts definitely in the same thread, or do these posters
keep starting new threads (or replying in various different threads)?
Even if the subject line is the same that doesn't necessarily make it
the same thread - threading is based on message headers (Message-ID,
In-Reply-To and References for emails, not sure if it's the same headers
for newsgroups). Outlook and perhaps others do attempt to use the
subject to thread messages, but personally I find that a right pain,
e.g. when it decides an email titled "Meeting today" is a reply to an
email titled "Meeting today" from 3 years ago! SeaMonkey and (as far as
I know) Thunderbird thankfully don't do that.
Where is the Killfile stasis of the threads in a UseNet group stored??
Or am I wrong in my impression that when I press 'K' on a thread that
thread should disappear from my sight forever .... or at least until I
take some remedial action to make a thread come alive again??
If they do keep starting new threads or posting in various other
threads, it may be more effective to just ignore messages from these
particular posters? I don't use newsgroups (I post here via the mailing
list) so not familiar with the exact filtering options for them, but
there may be an option to ignore or mark as read messages from
particular senders (and perhaps also to ignore the rest of the thread or
subthread as well). If they're trying to be recognised as frequent
posters on the group, presumably they're posting with consistent names
and addresses, so should be relatively easy to filter - unlike spammers
who post from randomised IDs to evade filtering.
--
Mark.
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