In article >, Default User
> wrote:

> Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>
> > You're using Outlook Express to read news. There exists software
> > specifically reading news -- Agent, Free Agent, others for Windows;
> > NewsWatcher, MacSoup, others for Macintosh. The good ones allow you to
> > create filters on posts -- by author, by subject, perhaps by length of
> > post. For example, I can choose to highlight the names of certain
> > posters so their posts are readily visible when my group's list of posts
> > appears. I can choose to'kill' or "kill file" certain subjects or
> > posters if I don't even want them to show up on my screen. The filters
> > may have time limits (you choose) on them. HTH.
>
>
> It should be noted that the newsreader that is part of OE is able to do
> that as well. It's a matter of learning how to use the tools.
>
> There are good reasons not to use OE as a newsreader, but filtering
> isn't really one of them, at least at the level we're discussing. I
> haven't used it for a while so I can't give explicit instructions to the
> OP as to how to use the kill features.

> Brian Rodenborn

Thanks for the info about that, Brian. Sounded like Dee didn't know
what a killfile is.
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