Question - how do you killfile posters?
 

Can somebody with the right technical knowledge please tell me how to set my ng
settings so I don't see posts from specific named posters? I'm on AOL. I can
supply any other techncal information needed to answer this question. Many
thanks for all assistance. Andy

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Question - how do you killfile posters?
 

Further to the above post - I have found a section which includes
'Preferences'. there's an "Author is" button and "domain is" button. Do I enter
the email address given by the poster under "Author is" or what exactly? As you
can see I haven't done this on newsgroups before. Thanks for any assistance,
Andy

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Question - how do you killfile posters?
 

In article ,
Andy Evans wrote:
Can somebody with the right technical knowledge please tell me how to
set my ng settings so I don't see posts from specific named posters? I'm
on AOL. I can supply any other techncal information needed to answer
this question. Many thanks for all assistance. Andy

Heh heh. Since you like old technology, an Acorn computer running RISC OS
is ideal for this sort of use. And Pluto, that is my news/mail programme
is simplicity itself to use for this sort of thing. It has crosses
alongside both subject and author - click on either or both and they're
killed. Gives you the option of how long for too.

Incidentally, I read quite a few groups, on various subjects and not just
UK ones. And have only found it necessary to killfile one person. On this
group. Sad.

--
*Real women don't have hot flashes, they have power surges.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

Question - how do you killfile posters?
 

Andy Evans wrote:

I'm on AOL.

Haha. why is that no surprise...

Question - how do you killfile posters?
 

I've entered the names I want to killfile under 'author' but it's not working
yet - does anybody specifically know AOL for this? Andy

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Question - how do you killfile posters?
 

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Andy Evans wrote:

Can somebody with the right technical knowledge please tell me how to
set my ng settings so I don't see posts from specific named posters? I'm
on AOL. I can supply any other techncal information needed to answer
this question. Many thanks for all assistance. Andy


Heh heh. Since you like old technology, an Acorn computer running RISC OS
is ideal for this sort of use. And Pluto, that is my news/mail programme
is simplicity itself to use for this sort of thing. It has crosses
alongside both subject and author - click on either or both and they're
killed. Gives you the option of how long for too.

Incidentally, I read quite a few groups, on various subjects and not just
UK ones. And have only found it necessary to killfile one person. On this
group. Sad.


What, you mean you haven't killfiled anyone from uk.d-i-y? (mentioning
no names)

Question - how do you killfile posters?
 

I just spoke to AOL help - seems like AOL only filters IN posters, not out.
Hopeless. Any ideas for a better newsgroup browser? - Dave Plowman was talking
about something - if he could explain how to set it up? Andy

=== Andy Evans ===
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Audio, music and health pages and interesting links.

Question - how do you killfile posters?
 

On 27 Oct 2004 08:30:20 GMT, ohawker (Andy
Evans) wrote:

I just spoke to AOL help - seems like AOL only filters IN posters, not out.
Hopeless. Any ideas for a better newsgroup browser? - Dave Plowman was talking
about something - if he could explain how to set it up? Andy

=== Andy Evans ===
Visit our Website:- http://www.artsandmedia.com
Audio, music and health pages and interesting links.

Andy, go to http://www.forteinc.com/main/homepage.php and download
yourself a copy of Free Agent. That has all the filters and killfiles
you could wish for. It also displays threads coherently, which the AOL
reader doesn't

Then find yourself another news provider. When my ISP is giving bad
service I use news.individual.net as I suspect do many here. It
carries no binaries.

As for killfiles, I almost don't use them. And when I do I don't leave
the person in for very long. You can't prevent their posts getting
through as quotes in other posts anyway, so it really isn't worth the
bother.

d
Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com

Question - how do you killfile posters?
 

Hello Don - thanks for the helpful information. I'll have a look at what you
suggest. Cheers, Andy

=== Andy Evans ===
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Audio, music and health pages and interesting links.

Question - how do you killfile posters?
 

In article ,
Andy Evans wrote:
I've entered the names I want to killfile under 'author' but it's not
working yet - does anybody specifically know AOL for this? Andy

Do you actually mean the names? I'd *guess* you need the email address
they post under.

Is there a reason you use AOL? Your posts stand out on here as being
rather difficult to read in context due to the lack of conventional format.

--
*He who laughs last, thinks slowest.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.