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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Sunday 03 September 2006 06:23 \__
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>> B Gruff <bbgruff@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Now that Mark has gone to some trouble to provide a digest of the [News]
>>> postings, I assume that everybody is happy - anybody can filter on [News],
>>> or filter out Mark's digest, or both or neither.
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>> That was pretty much how I was seeing it...
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>
> It would be egocentric to say that I support Mark's digests. However, I still
> think that many are missing the /options/ it brings about. Personally, I
> only download message headers.
I've put the "Long" tag on now, which should help anyone passing who's
using a low bandwidth connection, and the term "Digest" is also clearly
in the subject, along with a description of what it is. Hopefully this
will be enough for those wanting to avoid it.
I run a news server here, but it has filtering capabilities itself, so
some poster's material never makes it as far as my spool. After that, I
do my scoring in slrn. I believe that Pan operates much the same way,
and uses more or less the same scorefile format.
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>>> Could we take it one step further now..... could all you bloody trolls get
>>> together, put all your postings into one big digest once a week, and post
>>> it with a header including [Trolls - off topic]?
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>> Now that would be wonderful!
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>
> While UseNet is /not/ moderated (not the C.O.L.A. subset of it anyway), this
> got me thinking. What if a COLA gateway was created, which dropped every
> troll post, including nyms (readers are permitted to flag messages as spam).
> Some time ago, over in the newreaders NG, someone introduced to us a Web
> interface that facilitates collaborates filering (for SPAM, not trolls).
> This got me thinking about having a repository of filtering information,
> which could be access from any native mail reader and be used for filtering
> (a bit like spamcop.net or Autommatic Akismet for blogs/CMS's).
>
> Then again, we have a Wiki which I suppose could help people set up some
> killfiles. Roy C's stats help as well.
You started on that a while ago, afairc, but perhaps another push on
this would be useful? It would be good for me to refine my scorefile
again, anyway - it's got some stuff in from years back, now.
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