On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:27:07 -0400, DownTime penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

wrote:
| Narcissist jokes:
|
|You really are fighting a losing battle. Nothing you say or do will
|change much of anything, so why expend your energy on it?
|
|I've started making use of my kill file and my time spent in this forum
|is quite a bit more pleasant as a result of it. I've lost the desire to
|spend my time or bandwidth on the chafe.

Don't blame you!

Frankly, though, the problem with a simple kill file is that there are
too many false positives and false negatives. To that end, I have been
working on a series of algorithms that attempt to more accurately
address the problem, which tends to be more about whom is posting to
whom about what subject. (Rather than blocking all posts from a
particular poster.)

This certainly has been a study in GREP and group dynamics and, if I
am successful in making this work, I will open my news server for
others to download headers. That way, if you care to, you will see a
great reduction in the presence of the sandbox crew and other tripe
that most people don't care to read.

--
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