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Wayne Boatwright[_5_] Wayne Boatwright[_5_] is offline
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Default The Future of RFC?

On Fri 02 Jan 2009 12:44:13p, blake murphy told us...

> On Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:47:02 GMT, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>
>> On Thu 01 Jan 2009 02:38:32p, James Silverton told us...
>>
>>> Wayne wrote on Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:30:22 GMT:
>>>
>>>> I'm still looking for a newsreader that I like that can filter
>>>> on the body content of the post. Then I could eliminate posts
>>>> containing quoted posters I don't want to see or read. My
>>>> current newsreader does a fine job of filtering the contents
>>>> of "from", "subject", "headers".
>>>
>>> When you find one please let me know. I bought Forte Agent but its
>>> filtering doesn't do much more than Outlook Express for newsgroups and

I
>>> don't like its interface.
>>>

>>
>> I definitely will if I ever find one. I've been looking for a while.

>
> i think it can be done, but the overhead is pretty big, since the

software
> would have to examine every word of every post until it hit something
> verboten.
>
> your pal,
> blake
>


I'm sure it can be done. I just don't think that anyone has done it yet.
Yes, the overhead could be huge.

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