On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:22:07 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
<dishborealis@yahoo.com> wrote:

>"Victor Sack" <azazello@koroviev.de> wrote in message
>news:1i3zon3.1ko0wf1kcnpg2N%azazello@koroviev.de...
>> JoeSpareBedroom <dishborealis@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> "Victor Sack" <azazello@koroviev.de> wrote
>>> >
>>> > It strips anything of four characters or fewer followed by a colon in
>>> > the subject header (like "OT:", "REC:", or "PING:"), effectively
>>> > sabotaging any attempts to either killfile or highlight such threads.
>>>
>>> I guess that's important for people who haven't mastered the skill of not
>>> looking, or who use newsreaders which automatically expand all threads,
>>> even
>>> those they're not interested in.
>>
>> You are changing the subject now and arguing against filtering in
>> general. If by "people" you mean someone who read and post in a few
>> Usenet newsgroups 24 hours a day nonstop, you are right. For most
>> everyone else, what you say is stupid. It is akin to saying that there
>> should be just one newsgroup in the whole of Usenet and that people
>> should just not look on anything they do not want to see. This
>> newsgroup alone gets over 450 posts a day, on average, and a lot of
>> people do not read it every day or even every week. No one needs
>> filtering for a screenful of posts; it is used for hundreds or thousands
>> of posts.
>
>
>Let's say you come to this NG and see a post called "How To Cook Turkey
>Without Making It Dry". You're not interested. How do you go about NOT
>reading it?
>

I mark it to "ignore thread" or to "ignore subthread" when a couple of
people get going on a personal chat. I have my view set to only see
threads that are "not ignored." Never have to see the thread again.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)