Ignoring large posts

It is easy enough to look at a post and if it is over, say, 3k, to ignore
it. It would be even easier if there was a newsreader that did it for you.
Is there one?

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:14:51 GMT, "L.A.T." wrote:

It is easy enough to look at a post and if it is over, say, 3k, to ignore
it. It would be even easier if there was a newsreader that did it for you.
Is there one?

Forté Agent lets you set a maximum body size for retrieval.

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Tom Hise

(L.A.T.) wrote in
:

It is easy enough to look at a post and if it is over, say, 3k, to
ignore it. It would be even easier if there was a newsreader that
did it for you. Is there one?

You appear to be using some variety of Windows, so try Xnews

http://xnews.newsguy.com/

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Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN |

On Aug 13, 9:14 am, Bert Hyman wrote:
(L.A.T.) wrote :

It is easy enough to look at a post and if it is over, say, 3k, to
ignore it. It would be even easier if there was a newsreader that
did it for you. Is there one?

You appear to be using some variety of Windows, so try Xnews

http://xnews.newsguy.com/

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Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN |

Let me ax ya this; can either newsreader mentioned here be used for
the Google news group?

Jeff

On Aug 13, 11:06 am, DustyMars wrote:
On Aug 13, 9:14 am, Bert Hyman wrote:

(L.A.T.) wrote :

It is easy enough to look at a post and if it is over, say, 3k, to
ignore it. It would be even easier if there was a newsreader that
did it for you. Is there one?

You appear to be using some variety of Windows, so try Xnews

http://xnews.newsguy.com/

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Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN |

Let me ax ya this; can either newsreader mentioned here be used for
the Google news group?

Jeff

Is this still SAA or did I venture onto some weird political group?
Time for a moderated thingie here.

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Is this still SAA or did I venture onto some weird political group?
Time for a moderated thingie here.



It's still SAA, but it appears that some twit(s) are making a concerted
effort to kill it with junk. There is a moderated group, not on Usenet, run
by Martin Howell. Search around here, I know he's posted about it.

What I've been thinking about, though, is whether a new amateur astronomy
group can be created and added to the hierarchy of Usenet newsgroups. Some
place fresh, that will for a while at least, be relatively vermin free.

Related to this mess is something I've been wondering about for quite some
time now, which is why this group has attracted so many outright nuts,
stalkers, and related pests. I subscribe to three other Usenet groups, and
I don't see anywhere near the nonsense in them that I see here.

(John Nichols) wrote in
:

It's still SAA, but it appears that some twit(s) are making a
concerted effort to kill it with junk.

No; somebody is trying to kill sci.crypt.

The latest twist is to crosspost the junk to sci.crypt and some other
newsgroup(s), expecting the readers of the other newsgroups to
contribute to the junk in sci.crypt when they followup to the
original posts without looking at their newsgroup headers.

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Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN |

On Aug 13, 8:08 am, DustyMars wrote:
On Aug 13, 11:06 am, DustyMars wrote:



On Aug 13, 9:14 am, Bert Hyman wrote:

(L.A.T.) wrote :

It is easy enough to look at a post and if it is over, say, 3k, to
ignore it. It would be even easier if there was a newsreader that
did it for you. Is there one?

You appear to be using some variety of Windows, so try Xnews

http://xnews.newsguy.com/

--
Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN |

Let me ax ya this; can either newsreader mentioned here be used for
the Google news group?

Jeff

Is this still SAA or did I venture onto some weird political group?
Time for a moderated thingie here.



Hello,

Try Moderated sci.astro.amateur (www.moderatedsciastroamateur.org).
We have LOTS of members from this USENET sci.astro.amateur with over
280 posts. There are polls to vote in -- images are posted -- a forum
operated streaming radio connection -- a forum operated TV connection
with one of the channels available being a 24/7 live video/audio
stream from NASA control -- and a quirky little feature. . .a game
arcade of 200 games where members compete for #1 on the games.

JUST ADDED: A member map where members can "pin" their locations on a
country or world map. This one is GOOD.

I think you will like it. Hope to see you there!


---
Martin R. Howell
Moderated sci.astro.amateur
www.moderatedsciastroamateur.org

"Bert Hyman" wrote in message
...
(John Nichols) wrote in
:

It's still SAA, but it appears that some twit(s) are making a
concerted effort to kill it with junk.

No; somebody is trying to kill sci.crypt.

The latest twist is to crosspost the junk to sci.crypt and some other
newsgroup(s), expecting the readers of the other newsgroups to
contribute to the junk in sci.crypt when they followup to the
original posts without looking at their newsgroup headers.

So we're collateral damage?

In article ,
says...
(John Nichols) wrote in
:

It's still SAA, but it appears that some twit(s) are making a
concerted effort to kill it with junk.

No; somebody is trying to kill sci.crypt.

The latest twist is to crosspost the junk to sci.crypt and some other
newsgroup(s), expecting the readers of the other newsgroups to
contribute to the junk in sci.crypt when they followup to the
original posts without looking at their newsgroup headers.



Ahhh, I didn't see the x-posted newsgroup. Thanks.

I was beginning to think maybe it was Martin Howell trying to drive more
traffic off to his moderated website.


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