On Aug 13, 8:00 pm, Dave Hinz wrote:
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:53:01 -0700, Gerry wrote:
How does one do something like what is happening here? Surely some
asshole is not sitting typing out all these nonsensical posts! Does
not look like a program to just put random words from a dictionary
together either. I am computer ignorant and have no idea how to
"killfile" this stuff, either

Well, here's the deal. AOL gets you connected to the internet. They're
no different than any local dialup internet provider even though they
pretend to be. Once you make a connection to the internet, you're _in_.
Once you're in, any application you use can be used to access anything
on the internet.

AOL tries to hide this from you, because they want to pretend that the
Internet is just another keyword in AOL. It's not.

So. Once you dial in and get connected to the Internet, you can get
firefox as a browser, and access the REAL internet, not the AOL'ish
version. Download the firefox browser, install it, you'll be fine,
millions of us use it and it's completely legit.

Now, you have firefox. Open up AOL, get the connection to the internet,
then fire up Firefox. Welcome to the _real_ internet, not the "here's
what we want you to see" internet. You now have access to everything.
If you'ure running Windows, go tohttp://www.google.comand enter "forte
download" into the search box. Download and install it. This will get
you a newsreader that supports killfiles. Get it running, then ask for
help.

Once you're running forte' on the real internet, you can filter out all
the spam you want, including the crossposts that are the bane of
legitimate conversations.

So if I download "forte" it will do something to get rid of all the
senseless crap I'm seeing here? I'm already using Firefox. I no longer
use aol as my internet gateway