Ms Maniac X - how to ignor him

("Steve Foley" wrote)
In February, and again last month, I posted instructions on how to kill
his threads, and any responses to them, using OE 6 news rules.


From Google Groups - March 2, 2007

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:04:13 GMT
("Steve Foley" wrote)

This filter for Outlook Express marks his postings as ignored, and
anythingvfrom that branch on in that thread.

He no longer exists on my computer (Except the posts *ABOUT* him)

My 2/1 post:

I found the following completely eliminates mxsmanic from usenet, along
withvany responses to him. Using this, Ivdon't need to killfile anyone else.
Only responses to polluted threads are gone.

Tools - Message Rules - News - - New:

Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the From line contains 'mxsmanic'
Mark the message as ignored

View - Current View - Customize Current View:

View - Current View - Hide Read or Ignored Messages
View - Current View - Customize Current View

Un-check 'Where the message has been read'

Change the name to 'Hide Ignored Messages'

View - Current View - Make Sure 'Hide Ignored Messages' is checked.

(Montblack here)
Thanks Steve, I'll give it a try.


Montblack

For the die-hard computer geeks out there, if you use GNUS on
[X]Emacs, the 'gnus-summary-lower-score function (assigned to
the L key in the article buffer) will do this in a few key strokes;
something like L-f-s-t-ret will lower the score of the original post
and all followups.

That and the automatic scoring which I think is on by default in GNUS,
means I now see 1/10 of the total articles on Usenet and it's now a
pleasure to read and pick through. No more nutty rants by the idiotic
JH nor the followups by his redneck fanboys. No mxsmanic posts of any
kind. Some new new case pops up? No programming needed, just c-k the
post and after a couple of times they quietly drop from sight thanks
to the auto-scoring.
--
"Evolution is God's way of issuing upgrades."