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.
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.

--Vic






I find the filters very useful... One thing I hate is getting a few
lines into a response only to find it's one of the pink army regulars
and I have wasted my time. With all of the people in the world I can't
for the life of me think of anything they can tell me, I need or want to
know. If it's important, I will get it from someone else or find it
myself without the prejudice and slime...