"mike" wrote in message
om...
Been reading UK.D-I-Y at Google Groups for the last couple of years.

Thanks to the antics of the idiot cross-posters who appeared just
before Christmas, it's now virtually unuseable.

While we wait for the EU to realise the wisdom of euthanasing these
morons for the good of the species, can anyone recommened a decent
newsgroup reader for Mac OS X that will filter out the chaff and get
back to the real business of Andy/IMM ding-dongs about cheap power
tools and land reform?

Thanks in advance,

Mike

'fraid I can't point to anything for Macs or the UNIX OSs, but for windoze
users the following info might be useful.

I don't see any of these threads. At all. Well, unless some kind soul
decides to continue the thread dropping the cross-posts.

Why? Well, a while ago rec.woodworking was unfortunate to attract the
attentions of these cross-posting spammers/purveyors of crap. Someone
suggested using something called NewsProxy. It's a proxy filter that sits
running on your PC and whichever newsreader you care to use points at that
instead of your news server. It accepts regular expressions for filtering
content, so your newsreader doesn't even get to see these filtered articles.

This site has info about it...

http://www.r-bonomi.com/rec.woodworking/index.html

and I would suggest anyone interested also has a read through the various
FAQs that are posted in rec.woodworking by David F Eisan, the one
particularly of interest is posted regularly and is called "how to filter
out the crap" or something like that.

I would highly recommend this utility.

Of course, I'm feeling a little guilty here 'cos I cross-posted a genuine
question to uk.rec.gardening a while ago, and watched in amazement at the
various twisty paths that the ensuing ridiculous flame war went down....
I'll know better next time.



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