On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 16:28:38 GMT one of my loyal followers Stefan
wrote the following in alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk:

: Tee wrote in
: :
:
: On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 12:25:29 +0100, Stefan wrote:
:
: While I normally restrict myself to strictly sailing topics, I thought
: some of the inhabitants of this NG would find the following useful if
: they plan to remain here.
:
: For reasons that will be painfully obvious, I have decided to block the
: squatters who have decided to bombard us with their cross-posts.
: Although I've used Outlook Express quite happily for the last couple of
: years, I've been unable to get the cross-posting kill-function which
: purports to exist to actually work.
:
: Having now downloaded and tried 3 different free Windows-compatible
: newsgroups readers, I can report that the one that has worked best for
: me is Gravity from http://lightning.prohosting.com/
: ~tbates/gravity/download.html
:
: From a brief acquitance, it seems a well-thought-out package, with help
: files (which is nice). It is possible to block incoming cross-posted
: messages, and while I was at it I have also blocked our resident troll.
:
: I also tried xnews, but couldn't stand the idiosyncratic interface. Also
: Pan, but could not figure out how to block cross-posts with reading the
: manual - which has not been written yet.
:
: Having used Forte Agent for several years now I can only say I am very
: pleased with it. It gas good blocking functions, however I still did
: not find a way to stop the responses on blocked postings. That is,
: without blocking the responders as well.
:
: So, to all that respond to off topic post, trolls and other stuff that
: does not belong he Please stop it, or risk being plonked too.
: Don't feed the trolls!
:
:
: But we're hungry!

Yeah, I need a sausage.

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