Clams,
If on topic posts were never hijacked by those who love to bring off topic
posts into each and every topic, the filters work very well. I would
recommend filter OT, Bush, Kerry, Dubya, Dems, Democrats, Republicans etc.
Then block out anyone who insists on trying to hijack a thread.

The point I was trying to make is compaining about the OT posts won't remove
them. The more people just ignore of filter the OT posts the less there
will be.

"Clams Canino" wrote in message
news:3EJ4c.6737$_w.234365@attbi_s53...
If you filter the *correct* words in the headers you'll *never* miss an on
topic post. When I did my list - I left the words "left" and "right" out
for
that very reason.

But you can bet if you just filter: Bush, Kerry, Dubya, GOP, Dems,
Democrats, Republicans - OUT - that you'll cut the spam by 90% and miss
nothing you'd deem important.

It takes longer to write (yet another) OT post complaining about OT posts,
than it does to set up a filter. So laziness isn't a real factor.

-W


"Carl Craver" wrote in message
ink.net...

Yes, I can activate filters to block most of the crap... but why should
I
have to when this is a news group about boating?
When I filter my incoming posts I never know if
I may be missing something important.