On 2008-03-27, Mike Henry wrote:

"Maxwell Lol" wrote in message
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Thunderbird is a mail program, and not really a news reader.
Using a real news reader isn't an "add-on". It's a replacement.

Killfiles can be fast and painless.

Speaking for myself, the problem here are the off-topic posters and no
amount of "better" newsreaders is going to fix that. The problem is rampant
across all the "serious" newsgroups I read.

Well ... my killfile (in a better newsreader) kills of about 66%
of the typical day's traffic. Some of that is spam killed based on IP
address range (such as the frequent footwear spams from China) , some
spam killed based on wildcard matching in the "Subject: " header.

However -- some is permanent killfiling of a few individuals,
and adding OT (typically political) "Subject: " lines to the killfile
for 30 days (after which they are automatically removed -- and the
discussion has usually died by then as well. This keeps what is left a
lot more fun to read.

So -- yes, a better newsreader can make things a lot better.
FWIW, the one which I currently use is "slrn", which I believe has been
ported to Windows as well as being available on must flavors of unix
(including Macs running OS-X, which really have a unix hiding under the
GUI.)

Enjoy,
DoN.

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