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Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths

From	RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths
Date	2025-01-23 07:27 +0000
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On 2025-01-22, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 1/22/25 1:36 PM, rbowman wrote:
>> On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 08:38:50 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:
>> 
>>> Sure, but not user-friendly in the least. You can figure out how to
>>> configure it through a series of searches on the Internet, but most of
>>> what you would want to do can't be done from within the program. Much of
>>> it requires you to edit the configuration file and to know, before you
>>> start, what patterns to use to get things accomplished. At least in
>>> Thunderbird's case, it works without any confusion. It still has that
>>> bug that the filters won't work until you unsubscribe and resubscribe to
>>> a group, but otherwise it's perfect.
>> 
>> I find it very easy to click on a post, ignore the thread, or put the
>> author in the bozo bin for a period of time. You can also set the cross
>> post count for a group.
>
> The problem is that you will always end up with people like Larry 
> Pietraskiewicz who will change his name daily but follow an easy to 
> filter pattern. Pan and slrn don't allow you to filter patterns as 
> easily as Thunderbird/Betterbird does. It filters crossposts a lot more 
> easily though. In this client, I have to write in the name of the other 
> newsgroups people post from to get rid of them whereas in Pan, it's a 
> simple setting.

Crossposts are also a simple setting in slrn. And I'm pretty sure I'm also 
filtering Petraskiewcz and his many nyms with one command and it was pretty 
simple to do.

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien

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To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2025-01-20 12:29 +0000
  To the distro lackey (was: Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths) vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-01-20 14:23 +0000
    Re: 🏳️‍🌈To the distro lackey (was: Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths)🏳️‍🌈 🌈💐🌻🌺🌹🌻💐🌷🌺🌈Jen🌈💐🌻🌺🌹🌻💐🌷🌺🌈 Dershmender 💐🌻🌺🌹🌻💐🌷🌺🐶笛🌈💐🌻🌺🌹🌻💐🌷🌺🌈 <root@127.0.0.1>  - 2025-01-20 14:29 +0000
      Re: 🏳️‍🌈To the distro lackey (was: Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths)🏳️‍🌈 vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-01-20 14:40 +0000
    Re: To the distro lackey (was: Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths) Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2025-01-20 14:32 +0000
      Re: To the distro lackey (was: Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths) vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-01-20 14:47 +0000
  Re: Translation: (was: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths) Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-01-20 14:37 +0000
    Re: Translation: Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-01-20 14:45 +0000
    Re: Translation: CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-20 09:53 -0500
      Re: Translation: Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-01-20 16:03 +0000
        Re: Translation: CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-20 11:28 -0500
  Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-20 13:14 -0500
    Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-20 15:03 -0500
      Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-20 15:21 -0500
        Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-01-21 06:43 +0000
          Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-21 08:43 -0500
            Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-01-22 07:05 +0000
              Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-22 08:38 -0500
                Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-22 18:36 +0000
                Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-22 15:00 -0500
                Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-01-23 07:27 +0000
                Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-01-23 07:25 +0000
                Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-01-23 07:55 -0500
                Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-01-23 07:22 +0000
                Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-23 08:48 -0500
                Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-01-23 21:17 +0000
  Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-20 13:22 -0500
    Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-01-20 19:31 +0000
      Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-20 16:37 -0500
    Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2025-01-20 20:48 +0000
  Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-20 16:36 -0500

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