Carol..
Cool idea.. thank you!
lucy

"Damsel in dis Dress" > wrote in message
...
> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:58:01 GMT, "me" > wrote:
>
>>You're sweet, notbob.. thank you. And if you can't find anything, don't
>>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
>>lucy
>
> Hi, Lucy!
>
> I killfile individuals who NEVER make sane posts by their posting name.
> There are others who post to point out that someone is being a stinker,
> but
> otherwise make positive contributions to the group. I look at the thread
> they just started, and filter that entire thread. There are also a number
> of key words, as kilikini suggested, that will be automatically
> disregarded. Anything pertaining to politics, race, religion, 2 pound
> diets, you get the picture.
>
> I see amazingly few of the crap posts. And I get fewer than half of the
> posts made to the group by careful filtering, saving me lots of time for
> painting my toenails and eating bonbons.
>
> Carol
> --
> "Years ago my mother used to say to me... She'd say,
> 'In this world Elwood, you must be oh-so smart or oh-so pleasant.'
> Well, for years I was smart.... I recommend pleasant. You may quote me."
>
> *James Stewart* in the 1950 movie, _Harvey_