On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 19:40:22 -0400, Cheryl >
wrote:

>On 3/28/2016 5:38 PM, Je?us wrote:
>> On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 08:05:24 +1100, Bruce > wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 07:48:51 +1100, Jeßus > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 09:08:14 +0100, "Ophelia" >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "Cheri" > wrote in message
>>>>> ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "John Kuthe" > wrote in message
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> On Sunday, March 27, 2016 at 4:01:08 PM UTC-6, Jeßus wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sun, 27 Mar 2016 14:52:18 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe
>>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> People who use killfiles have NO self control!!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> LOL. You're the very LAST person on this group who should be making
>>>>>>> statements like that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I use NO killfiles, never have. I have self control!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> John Kuthe...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ====
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Oh the irony, but I don't killfile I just set some subjects and people in
>>>>>> that awful yellow color and easily skipped if not wanting to read.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mostly, I just go down the list marking as 'read' those I have no interest
>>>>> in reading before I begin. Killfiles are a waste of time mostly because
>>>>> you see responses anyway.
>>>>
>>>> That's true, although lately I'm not seeing many responses to the
>>>> serial nutters. It's been pretty quiet as far as all that goes here
>>>
>>> Rather than marking or killfiling what I don't want to read, I only
>>> doubleclick on what I do want to read. I don't need any automation for
>>> that.
>>
>> Me neither, although filtering stuff you /know/ you're not going to be
>> interested in makes things easier.
>>
>>> Unless a resident mental patient is going through an extra problematic
>>> episode and takes over the entire group for a while.
>>
>> I only see the occasional reply to those ones. Other than that, it's
>> not an issue for me.
>>
>I think most of us here have outgrown Usenet nonsense. Time for good
>conversations for the time we have left with this dying protocol.

Good point, how much longer Usenet will be around is anyone's guess.