Dave W wrote:

> In article .net>,
> Blinky the Shark > wrote:
>
>> Dave W wrote:
>>
> <snip>
>> > Well, I'm going to "un-kill-filter" gmail. When I checked in on RFC this
>> > morning there were 700 articles, 326 of which were killed! Pretty
>> > extreme I'd say! (Not all the killed files were gmail files, I'm sure.)
>> >
>> > Anyway, thanks for the clue re. gmail's improved behavior. I'll put away
>> > the shotgun and see what happens. I checked newswatcher's on line
>> > documentation and saw a comment which implied that you can 'pass'
>> > favored names through a kill filter. But it may take time for me to find
>> > out how to do it and right now I'm hard pressed to read the manual for
>> > my new programmable thermostat so it can turn on the heat when the
>> > weather changes. (God, I hate reading manuals, documentation, and such!)
>>
>> Some people confuse "gmail posts" with posts coming from Google Groups.
>> Not the same thing. See my sig for clues.
>
> Yes. I left my Google Groups kill filter in place and removed the gmail
> filter. This morning's count: 323 articles, 87 killed. Still pretty
> extreme. I'll check the clues in your sig.

Nothing new there if you already have a real GG filter in place, Dave.

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