"notbob" > wrote in message
news:joqwd.770658$8_6.571320@attbi_s04...
> On 2004-12-16, me > wrote:
>
>> worry about it.. I've survived so far by just killfiling the username of
>> the
>> person doing it, and was hoping I could do it another way, so I could see
>> their 'sane' posts.. oh well! lol
>
> Well Lucy, it looks like if you want to do a killfile on a whole newsgroup
> you're going to hafta use another newsreader. OE just doesn't have the
> capability.

notbob, I didn't ask how to killfile the whole newsgroup.. just the weirdos
(although I see how you could think that, hehe).
Carol had a great suggestion..
Thanks everyone!
lucy

>
> The most versatile newsreaders are the one's that have "scoring"
> capabilities. This gives you a wide range of possibilities from
> killfilling
> by everything in the header to prioritizing and favoring posts by other
> criteria. I can killfile by just one word or even any post that has more
> than one newsgroup. To kill that lame cannabalism thread, I killed any
> post
> with "snuff" in the header. The word "cardiology" kills off the whole Dr.
> Dung crowd as it seems to be the one newsgroup (ng) that is always in the
> list. So, no matter the subject or the author, Dr Dung and his minions
> are
> totally absent from my thread list.
>
> The most popular scoring type newsreader for Windows is Xnews. You can
> also
> get slrn (my fave) for Windows. Slrn is a unix command line type reader,
> but it's so good I still prefer it to gui readers, which I used for many
> years. If you insist on staying with OE, it appears you can get what you
> need by using an add on appy called nfilter:
>
> http://www.nfilter.org/
>
> ....The choice is up to you. You can find everything you want to know
> about newsreaders on:
>
> http://www.newsreaders.com/
>
> ...and you can ask all the questions you would like on the newsgroup:
>
> news:news.software.readers
>
> hope this helps,
> nb