This NG is getting useless

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Peter Seiler said:
What's in a Name? - 26.04.2007 03:30 :

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That's Entertainment!
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But bad "entertainment". Why the name/OnTopic of this ng is
alt.comp.anti-virus? Should be better a.c.private-flame,
a.c.private-war, a.c.un-mature, a.c.full-quoting, a.c.bandwidth-wasting
etc..
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How about alt.comp.nitpick?

I'm full-quoting so you can see what heinous crime you committed.
You snipped nothing apart from attributions. If yer gonna snip, snip
content *and* the attributions that go with it. Do not include
unnatributed comments!
 
Lew/+Silat said:
Thank you:)
This is my first time trying this so I have some questions.
Where do I put the lines?
Do I copy them as is?
Thanks again
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Nfilter has a sample file with instructions, but all you need to do is
open something like Notepad, copy those two lines in, save as
nfilter.txt, close, and change the extension to .dat .

Anything other than .txt will add header stuff you don't want, and I
think I saw a note about avoiding blank lines, but don't recall for sure.

If you want to add a person to the filter:

* drop from:*pcbutts*

It's faster to do it that way than to add to my reader filter.

Some types of spam or kook generated posts can be avoided with:

* drop subject:*Good*News*

Replace * with a specific news group if you want the filter to work only
with that news group. The number of space in the line does not matter,
within sensible limits.

That'll get you started. Be sure to read all the files that will open in
Notepad.
 
Offbreed said:
Nfilter has a sample file with instructions, but all you need to do is open something like Notepad, copy
those two lines in, save as nfilter.txt, close, and change the extension to .dat .

Anything other than .txt will add header stuff you don't want, and I think I saw a note about avoiding
blank lines, but don't recall for sure.

If you want to add a person to the filter:

* drop from:*pcbutts*

It's faster to do it that way than to add to my reader filter.

Some types of spam or kook generated posts can be avoided with:

* drop subject:*Good*News*

Replace * with a specific news group if you want the filter to work only with that news group. The number
of space in the line does not matter, within sensible limits.

That'll get you started. Be sure to read all the files that will open in Notepad.
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Thanks again:) What "language" is this "* drop from:*pcbutts*" written in so that I may google it to learn
about it?
 
Offbreed said:
Too many "innocent" questions. I think we have a Borat.
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Think so.....btw, your clock is an hour out somehow. But the Whois
gives me a town in Alaska. Not up on *GMT minus* for that area.

Cheers......Figgs
 
Bart Bailey said:
In Message-ID:<[email protected]> posted on Sat,
28
Apr 2007 15:05:07 -0400, Heather wrote: Begin


http://tinyurl.com/2qvnj7
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Thanks Bart......I had the town/city, but figured it would be the same
zone as BC, which I now see it isn't. But isn't he still one hour
out?? He answered me before I posted.

Oh well, you guys can keep Alaska.....too cold for us, grin.

Cheers......Heather
 
Walter R. wrote on 26 Apr 2007 :
Hi, I am using Outlook Express 6. Could you recommend a better, free,
newsreader?

Thanks
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Also, any newsreader is better than OE, but Xnews is tops in my books.
 
Heather said:
Think so.....btw, your clock is an hour out somehow. But the Whois gives me a town in Alaska. Not up on
*GMT minus* for that area.

Cheers......Figgs
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Ty. Dont know why my clock was out. Its fixed now.
By the way maybe language was the wrong term. But apparently no one can explain how you learn to wrt the
rules for the filters. Maybe expressions is the correct term. But whats funnier than my use of the word
language is the fact that you couldnt figure that out:)

Now here is some humor that should make you smile.

" Women's Ass Study "



There is a new study out about women and how they feel about their asses.



I thought the results were pretty interesting.



25% of women think their ass is too fat......



10% of women think their ass is too skinny......



The other 65% say that they don't care; they love him, he's a good man and they would have married him
anyway...
 
But isn't he still one hour
out??
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I didn't pay any attention to the original post's time stamp,
just your observations about zone and know AK is between us and HI
 
Heather said:
Think so.....btw, your clock is an hour out somehow. But the Whois
gives me a town in Alaska. Not up on *GMT minus* for that area.

Cheers......Figgs
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Alaska.

I get to work on time and the computer matches the two alarm clocks, so
I think it's that dumb assed "daylight savings time" mess causing problems.
 
Winchester said:
Walter R. wrote on 26 Apr 2007 :


Also, any newsreader is better than OE, but Xnews is tops in my books.
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Never could figure out how to use it, and the bandwidth is so slow here
that I got frustrated and quit.
 
Winchester said:
Offbreed wrote on 29 Apr 2007 :

Here is the only link you will ever need for setting up and using Xnews.

http://xnews.remarqs.net/help.htm
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Thanks. I'll look it over. My only real gripe about T'Bird is how it
screws up when I accidentally double click on the left pane (and how
right clicking on a word to see why it is misspelled covers the word so
I cannot compare the suggestions with the misspelled word).

Tho, it was entertaining to discover "Mozilla" was not found in the
T'Bird spell check <G>.
 
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