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Cat Forum / General Topics / September 2005How to block certain messages on this board
Go to the message. The same person is using various names and posts the same message on various boards. Names such as Puppywizard Animal behaviour forensics etc. On menu bar click on tools Click on block messages and hey presto. The sad bastard disappears!!!! I`ve just done so. Although they reappear with different names, you just have to be aware and repeat the process when similar messages appear >Go to the message. >The same person is using various names and posts the same message on various [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >have to be aware and repeat >the process when similar messages appear For what news reader program ?!?!?!?!? >>Go to the message. >>The same person is using various names and posts the same message on various [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > >For what news reader program ?!?!?!?!? That question is answered in the original message - you are using Agent, so right click in the message window and click "Show all headers".  SignatureT.E.D. (tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu) SPAM filter: Messages to this address *must* contain "T.E.D." somewhere in the body or they will be automatically rejected. >>>Go to the message. >>>The same person is using various names and posts the same message on various [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >Agent, so right click in the message window and click "Show all >headers". Here is the original message - the same as is above. Where, pray tell, does it give the name of the news reader program the poster is talking about ?? It may be in the header or whatever but not everyone looks at that. Put it in the body of the header !! >Where, pray tell, does it give the name of the news reader program the poster is talking >about ?? It may be in the header or whatever but not everyone looks at that. Put it in >the body of the header !! With Agent, click H to see all headers. Here are the headers from the original message as shown to me by Agent connected to Earthlink. She is using: X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527 Click Message-ID: <dfqq6u$p5n$1@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk> to see that original message and headers on the server you are using ( the path will be different). Path: newsspool2.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newshub.sdsu.edu!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!195.92.193.196.MISMATCH!nntp.theplanet.net!inewsm1.nntp.theplanet.net!news.theplanet.net!not-for-mail From: "nelly-knowall" <nelly-know-all@nospammers.com> Newsgroups: alt.cats Subject: How to block certain messages on this board Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 02:57:46 +0100 Lines: 14 Message-ID: <dfqq6u$p5n$1@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.137.104.41 X-Trace: newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk 1126231070 25783 62.137.104.41 (9 Sep 2005 01:57:50 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Sep 2005 01:57:50 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse@theplanet.net X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Xref: news.earthlink.net alt.cats:206897 X-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 18:57:50 PDT (newsspool2.news.pas.earthlink.net) Agent filters are a lot more powerful than those with OE. You might want to read alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent for more filter help after you read the help file, especially "Expression Examples". BarB >Go to the message. >The same person is using various names and posts the same message on various [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >have to be aware and repeat >the process when similar messages appear You will not have to repeat quite so often with trolls who morph names, if you use "Message Rules" (on Microsoft Outlook Express) instead of "Block Sender". On Tools/ Message Rules/ News/ New, check "From Line contains people". Go to the link in the lower box and enter part of the name. If you enter "puppy", that will get a good portion of those messages. Of course it will also filter anyone else with "puppy" in their sig in all newsgroups, so you may want to specify the newsgroup as well. Check the action you want. I would flag messages at first to see if a filter is doing what I want it to, and change it to "delete" later on. You can also add a filter for "wizard". To get both words in the same filter, add the second word later to get it to read, "puppy" or "wizard". ( Not "puppy or wizard") You can filter on any word or phrase in a subject line to kill every post in a thread. For instance I always filter on troll threads by subject. This will remove those who simply must respond to trolls, without deleting all their posts ... Sometimes I'm sorely tempted, but how to freeze out trolls is a topic for another thread :) Also use "Message Rules" to highlight or flag topics or authors you are especially interested in. These are features of OE that can make the group a lot more readable. BarB pattist@earthlink.net moderation board news.newusers.questions Just remember one thing when someone responds to the trolls post try sniping the original message so it don't spread if you want to respond so the rest of us who have killfiled them don't have to read it >Just remember one thing when someone responds to the trolls post try >sniping the original message so it don't spread if you want to respond so >the rest of us who have killfiled them don't have to read it It would help to leave the attributes in and quote part of the message so we know who you are responding to. I'll assume from the reference line that it's me:) The first rule is don't respond to trolls at all, NEVER, EVER, period. They will be more likely to go elsewhere for entertainment if you do. We call that STANDARD ADVICE for groups hassled by trolls. In many groups it isn't the trolls causing the problem, it's those who can't refrain from posting witty answers. They can't win since every answer feeds a troll. Even if you are attacked, don't respond. Those who know you will know better and those who don't, don't matter. When you perpetuate a flame war you annoy the other members of the group and may find they will killfile everyone, attacker and attacked alike because they don't give a damn who started it. SignatureBarB pattist@earthlink.net, moderation board, news:news.newusers.questions |
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