How did you guys get all these OT conspiracy $!@$%!! types here?

"Peter R." wrote in message
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All someone's opinion. In MY opinion, none of the other ones are as easy
and as logicaly laid outm, as OE.

But, obviously lacking the powerful kill filter feature that would make
reading this group a little more enjoyable.

Guess that depends on one's needs. I agree that OE filtering is not as
robust as that found in other newsreaders. However, I find it a trivial
effort to mark undesirable threads as ignored. The message rules also allow
for automatically marking as ignored threads where a particular poster has
posted, or where the subject has a particular word or phrase in it.

I do miss my old rn killfile semantics, but OE is so much cleaner,
friendlier, and easier in other ways that the negligible additional effort
(hit Alt-M-I when I see a thread I don't want) to filter out this crap isn't
a big deal.

In other words, OE has sufficient features to prevent the off-topic spam and
rants from detracting to whatever enjoyment one might derive from this
newsgroup.

Your mileage may vary.

Pete

"Peter R." wrote

But, obviously lacking the powerful kill filter feature that would make
reading this group a little more enjoyable.

No doubt, but I skip quickly over subjects that I don't want to read; it
only takes a second to avoid a whole thread, with the "mark conversation
read" button, I have at quick access. g

I tend to keep a quick read on the wanderings of threads, as sometimes the
wander back to an area that I want to see.

There are threads that are of no use to me, and like I said before, I skip
quickly over them.
--
Jim in NC

Varmit, you faux troll, you've done it again! Congrats

"Peter R."
I am impressed. A troll to the trolls.

More like tying a pork chop around his neck and leading the dogs out of
town.

:-)

Dallas

"Peter Duniho"
However, I find it a trivial
effort to mark undesirable threads as ignored.

Actually, I have been picking the messages in OE and selecting "Ignore
Conversation", but it doesn't seem to work. Next time I check in there they
are again.

I'm I missing something?


Dallas

"Dallas" wrote in message
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Actually, I have been picking the messages in OE and selecting "Ignore
Conversation", but it doesn't seem to work. Next time I check in there
they
are again.

I'm I missing something?

Are they still marked? The other step you need to do is set up a view that
hides messages that are ignored (this doesn't happen by default).

That's the other deficiency in the OE...the plain old "Ignore" function
doesn't actually mark the messages as read. You need to set up a message
rule for that. I just leave the threads hidden by the view, and then catch
up the newsgroup later.

I readily agree that OE doesn't have the robust message filtering of some
other readers, but it's certainly sufficient for keeping the crap out of
view (which is all I really require of my message filtering ).

Pete

OE View menu has "Hide Read or Ignored Messages"


"Peter Duniho" wrote in
message ...
| "Dallas" wrote in
message
|
ink.net...
| Actually, I have been picking the messages in OE and
selecting "Ignore
| Conversation", but it doesn't seem to work. Next time I
check in there
| they
| are again.
|
| I'm I missing something?
|
| Are they still marked? The other step you need to do is
set up a view that
| hides messages that are ignored (this doesn't happen by
default).
|
| That's the other deficiency in the OE...the plain old
"Ignore" function
| doesn't actually mark the messages as read. You need to
set up a message
| rule for that. I just leave the threads hidden by the
view, and then catch
| up the newsgroup later.
|
| I readily agree that OE doesn't have the robust message
filtering of some
| other readers, but it's certainly sufficient for keeping
the crap out of
| view (which is all I really require of my message
filtering ).
|
| Pete
|
|