Dave wrote:
You need to learn to read headers before continuing to run off at the mouth.
See that "No Archive" in my headers? I'm surprised you even found 199
results. Apparently Google only partially honors the No Archive.

Been reading headers since the Inet was Arpanet--thanks for the suggestion

So, how long _have_ you been posting to this group? I read it nearly every day
and don't recall running into you before.

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

I do it regularly. As I already told you once, I use either my news reader's
filters or a news proxy, depending on the severity of the problem. With a
news proxy it's trivial to automatically reject or accept, on a newsgroup by
newsgroup basis, all articles cross-posted to more than X groups.

So I guess for you, thousands of commercial posts would not pose a problem or
even an annoyance. For some of us it does.

What was your point? Are you trying to encourage commercial use of
non-commercial usenet groups?

Maybe someday rec.boats.cruising will just be commercial messages, and people
insulting each other. Then we all will have lost a useful resource about
boating and cruising.

That's all I'm going to say about this subject.

Don W.