if one day dh and i both haven't one single thing to do i am going to get
him to set my filters so that not only the person who i want filtered is
gone but any response to that person is also not seen, i might use a few
good recipes but overall i think it will make reading easier, but as i said,
it is absolutely at the bottom of the to do list, Lee
"Dan Abel" > wrote in message
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> In article
> -september.
> org>,
> Ranée @ Arabian Knits > wrote:
>
>> Steve Pope > wrote:
>
>> > IMO The best solution is to not use killfiles in the first place.
>> > I realize I'm a voice in the wilderness here, but widespread killfile
>> > use is part of the process that leads to social newsgroups going
>> > down the drain.
>
> I always like a voice from the wilderness, but still, how does one
> handle the situation where a poster appears to have, as their sole goal,
> the destruction and fragmentation of the newsgroup by propagating
> character attacks, obscenities, lies and false information?
>
>> > At any rate, the fact that person X does not have person Y killfiled
>> > is not a valid reason for criticizing person X.
>
> That's very true. From my point of view, ideally, most of the time, no
> one should know who is in anybody else's killfile. My killfile is
> primarily a method to manage my reading of the group, not to "punish"
> anybody.
>
>> That is not the criticism. The criticism is that she perpetuates the
>> crassness, the noise and the strife.
>
> That's very true also.
>
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> Dan Abel
> Petaluma, California USA
>