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J. Clarke[_2_]

In article >,
says...
>
> Dan Abel wrote:
> > blake murphy > wrote:
> >
> >> plus, there's a lot more overhead in that the filter is scanning entire
> >> posts instead of just headers. let us know if you find out anything.
> >
> > Although it should be noted that some newsreaders can filter on more
> > headers than others. Mine will filter on 17 other headers besides the
> > subject header.
>
> The temptation grows for me to switch to a newsreader that includes
> filtering in the body of the message. At this point I would like to
> kill any post that includes an address in my global author kill list but
> I am not yet ready to configure another newsreader and learn its
> filtering language.

Nice thing about Hamster is that it's newsreader-agnostic. Outlook
Express, Dialog, Xnews, Gravity, Thunderbird, all the same to Hamster.
Separates the filtering function from the newsreader function.

> Cooking -
>
> A week ago we went on a drive on Saturday and brought back several
> baskets of fruit. Now there's plum butter, plum jam, pear sauce, pear
> butter, apple sauce, apple butter that has been canned.
>
> I looked at the shreds of apple skins that came out of the sieve for the
> apple sauce and apple butter and wondered how I could put it to use. So
> I boiled up some honey plus sorghum syrup and added the apple skins. I
> now have a small (2 gallon) batch of honey, sorghum, apple flavored
> "mead like stuff" fermenting. In a month or two I'll switch it to
> bottles.