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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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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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.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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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)

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

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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 ===
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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

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

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Don Pearce wrote:

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.

Seconded... Been using them for a couple of years without any problems.
Totally free and no adverts as well :-)

"Don Pearce" wrote


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.


Yebbut, nobbut.......

I used KFs a while back and then cleared them all out. I rediscovered the
Wondrous Joy Of Binning a couple of nights back and there's a couple in
there already (*no* prizes for guessing :-). This morning's 'pink tide of
brown stuff' had me reaching for the lever again, but I'll stay the hand
until I've had a look at some of it - although not expecting anything of
much interest, needless to say.....

The great thing with OE is that it scrapes all the crap off your machine if
you do finally get fed up with someone. The poor standard of snipping, as
you say, will give you enough to throw the odd rock at, if the urge takes
you. (On that subject, do I spy that the Pink Prat has started snipping
again after I named him yesterday???)

In article ,
Nick Brooks wrote:
What, you mean you haven't killfiled anyone from uk.d-i-y? (mentioning
no names)

Don't you mean letters? ;-)

No - I find his continual rants amusing sometimes. And the very real
useful information that occasionally comes through the chaff.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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