"Doug Dotson" wrote:


"SkitchNYC" wrote in message
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Doug Dotson wrote:

Sorry, skipping over the posts that don't interest me does little
to recover the wasted bandwidth. It has already been wasted. As an ex-CEO
of an ISP company you, of course, know this.

This is incorrect. Don't download or open the thread and "presto"
bandwith
saved.

Hard to tell something is not worth readin until you start to read it. The
subject
line statys the same with each port so you have no clue until you open the
post.

Not really true. I often put a delete filter on whole subject lines. So
all you'd have to do is filter on Panda and you wouldn't get any posts
about that topic.

Sometimes I set the filter with an expiration of 30 days of inactivity.
That is when there have been no posts with that subject or word in the
subject line for 30 days then the filter expires on its own.

As a general rule, I figure that any time a subject has more than 40 or 50
posts in it, then it is probably so far off topic that it isn't of interest
anymore. I also flag to watch or delete certain people.

grandma Rosalie