"Dave Hinz" wrote in message
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On 2 Feb 2005 04:58:36 -0800, jim rozen wrote:
In article , Mike Henry says...

That works for "Cliff's" posts but doesn't help at all for the (usually)
many responses.

True if killfiling by poster. The cliff-moron deliberately
crossposts the OT crap so that folks in other ngs show up
here on rcm, when their newsreaders don't single-group reply.

Ah. Another tactic I use, is that if a post is crossposted to 3 or more
groups, I don't see it. Killfile rule is based on two or more , in the
newsgroups: line. I suppose it's _possible_ that a legitimate message
could be posted to 3 or more groups and be on-topic for all of them,
but I never saw one; just trolling. I'm willing to miss an occasional
theoretical post, to improve my S:N ratio.

Dave Hinz

How would I enter that in the field? Would I use the asterisk wild card
denotation?

Would it be using the semicolons? as ***;***;*** or *** ; *** ; ***

Just what would be the exact characters? That sounds like a great filter.

Steve

Oh, uh-oh, shoot. Sorry that this is OT stuff ........ ;-)

Steve