I'm not a ng sophisticate, but isn't it just a matter of discretion?.
I use Forte freeware and filters are not available to me. I just open
up message list and scroll.
Berties comments to and from his disciples are ingnored.
Bertie's and his disciples' comments to regularlar posters are
ingnored.
Donal's, Horvath's, Ganz's and Binary Bill's invites to and responses
to Bertie and his Disciples are ignored.
Flying Tadpole's responses are always read
Peter Whiley's responses are always read
Scout's responses are always read.

Ignore___ance is bliss





On 11 Aug 2003 12:49:27 GMT, (Bobsprit) wrote:

I'm breaking policy and using filters to cut Bunyip and other non-sailing
posters...among a few others! This after the following e-mail from Taddy. You
have him to blame...


Not a troll.

Too many posts and I don't use filters as a matter of policy.

R.

Because of the reality that they are all crossposting, and because of the sheer
number of nonsense posts, I have abandoned my own policy of never filtering
anyone, because I haven't the time to individually mark "as read" those I'm not
interested in. You may not have noticed that even the University of Berlin is
starting to come in on this particular flame war, which says a great deal for
the resistance alt.sailing.asa is putting up. This bunch of ******s has never
actually hit something like us before.

In any case, their intention is to shut down alt.sailing.asa, as they have done
to other newsgroups. It's very easy to circumvent their intent, just continue
on. It's also very easy to give them what they want, which is a useless and
lifeless shell remaining of the newsgroup. All you have to do is leave.

If continuing needs filters, then it needs filters. Anyone wants my attention
and cant get it on the newsgroup because they're running through (eg)
databasix.com, they can always use direct email, none of which is ever
filtered.

Flying Tadpole