On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:58:13 -0500, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:33:43 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:


You can't filter on the body in Agent....

Never quite understood why anybody would filter.
I tried it once in the ASA group when it was over run by flonkers, and
with Agent it slows down update of the headers in the group.
And no matter what reader, or if it happens server-side,
the parsing will slow things down.

You must have a slow server. Applying the filters makes no noticeable
difference in the updating of headers with my server and news reader.

My headers are sorted subject/time, and it's very easy to delete
entire subjects or posters with the mouse.
Never more than a few clicks, and just maybe I want to read something
because of a poster/subject combination.

I like my headers to show up sorted by thread. Deleting a poster, even
when sorting by author, doesn't delete the responses to the author's
bull****.


I never felt I had to read anything I don't want to read.

That's good.

Why let a filter censor what I can read?

Because you set it to do so. You can always undo a filter if you
simply *must* read the author's tripe.

Do I have free will?

Do you? That question should be easily answerable.
Or not?
Just seems childish to me.

That's why God made opinions.

But maybe others find it useful because of their readers/tools.

--Vic

I found getting rid of 400 headers with one 'Apply Filters' click to
be very worthwhile. I didn't have to decide whether or not to read
each one. I don't like the idea of wearing out my 'free will'.

Oh, I don't go back and analyze my filtered posts file, if one exists,
either.


--

John H