On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 19:22:31 +0000, John Stumbles wrote:

Harvey Van Sickle wrote:

On 20 Jan 2004, Elessar wrote


A really useful newsreader feature would be "ignore any item
crossposted to n or more newsgroups". n=3 or 4 would be about
right.


Xnews has precisely this feature -- http://Xnews.newsguy.com.

Can it be set to ignore the rest of a thread where more than say 60% of
the articles are by Andy Hall and IMM? ;-)

I've switched on filtering of all cross-posted articles with 5 or more groups this is
currently removing 14% of the newgroup traffic.

I find that with ABABABA ding-dong threads I just read the non-AB posts
which will tell me where thread has got to (if anywhere).

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