On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 13:49:59 -0500, Jon Elson
wrote:

wrote:

Agent, when downloading messages, says: Downloading up to (x amount)
messages. With filters in place today Agent reported downloading up
134 messages. Only 9 made it past the filters. This is the lowest
percentage yet of good to bad messages. Sad.
Eric
Yup, it is a SAD case, indeed! Tons of political rants, almost no metal
content I can find. Why do people do this? Do they think people really
want to discuss these rants?

Jon, I came here to learn more about youse guys' field(s) of
metalworking, but I stayed because there was a vast assortment of
people from different fields discussing -lots- of things, including
metalworking. I find much of it to be very interesting.

If people would learn to avoid replying to the spammers and idiots,
the ratio of those filtered messages would go way down.

Improper filtering could be part of some peoples' problem, too. Over-
filtering can remove valid postings.

--
Truth loves to go naked.
--Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732