Don W wrote:

Dave wrote:

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 21:07:35 GMT, Don W
said:


I don't recall that you've been posting to this group very long, but
you surely don't want to have to start filtering your newsgroups as
well do you?



Nor do I recall your posting to the group for long.


Do a quick Google search of rec.boats.cruising using the sig "Don W".
There
are 400+ hits back to Jan 14, 2000 when Google started archiving the
newsgroups.
Actually, I've been reading and posting here regularly since before then.


The same search for you reports 199 results starting Jan 2004. Okay,
thats longer
than I remembered, but still only 1-1/2 years.

BTW, tell me how you can filter out commercial posts from a bunch of
different senders.

My email filter kills all email from anyone not in my "sent" file, or in
my address book.
I have to scan the killed messages to make sure relevant ones didn't get
killed by mistake.
I use "kill file" type filters on the newsgroups. These only delete
posts by specific
individuals.

How would you filter hundreds or thousands of posts from different senders?

If you had to wade through them by hand would you bother to continue
reading the newsgroup?

Doesn't your newsgroup software give you a list of only the subject and
authors so you can scroll down through fifty or sixty messages in a
minute or two? then delete them all in five seconds if you don't want to
read them? If not, you should switch to one of the many that do, it will
make your usenet life alot better.

Stephen