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First recorded activity by BoatBanter: Jul 2009
Posts: 16
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Nitrogen in tires - to alla yu guys
NotNow wrote:
Just wait a frekin' minute! wrote:
Gene Kearns wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:58:13 -0500, Vic Smith penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:
|On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:33:43 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:
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|You can't filter on the body in Agent....
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|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.
|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 never felt I had to read anything I don't want to read.
|Why let a filter censor what I can read?
|Do I have free will?
|Or not?
|Just seems childish to me.
|But maybe others find it useful because of their readers/tools.
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|--Vic
A filter is useful for (at least) the following reasons:
1) You can filter out folks that NEVER post on topic,
2) You can filter out threads and sub-threads that you KNOW aren't
going anywhere you want to: Bill Sucks, Politics Something, Insult
Whatever
3) Those prefaced with OT- are not of interest.....
You mean, no beer, no guitars, no race reports?? Come on, the
occassional kitchen remodel and lawnmower report has to be of some
interest? 
Rowdy Mouse Racing, Carver was carnage this weekend...
And what about those septic tank pumping episodes, as well as tracking a
FedEx package?
Don't forget the $700 office chair/bed.
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