Re: Dealing with abusive multiple posts


"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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John Larkin wrote:

On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:02:46 -0700, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Paul E. Schoen wrote:


I was unpleasantly surprised to see the string of maybe 100 multiple
posts concerning the stupid MassiveProng thing, and it really detracted
from my ability to read other headers. However, I found that, using my
Outlook Express newsreader, I was able to permanently delete them. ...


If anyone figures out how to do that in Mozilla please let us all know.


In Agent, sweep them with the mouse to highlight them, then hit the
delete key. That takes a few seconds.


Maybe that should be my next newsreader. In Mozilla it seems delete =
cancel and it doesn't let you unless it's your own post.


It looks like these multiple posts really screw up GoogleGroups. Maybe
that's a "good thing"? I don't think they have any good way to delete,
bypass, filter, or ignore them all, so maybe this will inspire them to add
that functionality. You can't just look at headers; it opens part of the
text, so you have to step through a whole lot of pages to get past the
crap. I was surprised to see that each post contained different text,
probably clips from some technical manual. I didn't bother to open them in
OE.

Paul


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