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Mart van de Wege <mvdwege.usenet@wanadoo.nl> wrote:
> It's not *that* bad. Use a good news reader, one that can kill-file on
> follow-up, and throw Shawn Wilson, Brandon Cope, and Marshall in the
> kill-file with follow-ups; stay out of any threads that have both MSB
> and Bradd in 'em, and the atmosphere is remarkably civil.
Heh, that's about right.
> There's plenty of posters that post some good stuff here, and are
> quite civil. I score them up, so occasionally I see parts of the
> flamewars when they engage in them, and staying out of the Bradd/MSB
> vendetta is hard because I have both of them on a positive score, but
> it's possible to enjoy this group.
Here's a tip for dealing with posters that you like individually but not
together: First, give each one a positive score based on From addresses,
as you've already done. Then, assign a negative score to each References
header that contains articles from both posters.
For example, my message IDs look like <slrn...bradd+news@szonye.com>.
That string (with ... replaced by random characters) will always appear
in followups to my articles, so long as the other newsreaders don't
break threading.
If you want to filter all articles where MSB and I are replying directly
to each other, then look for articles from MSB where my message-ID
pattern is at the end of the References header, and vice versa. (I don't
know MSB's message-ID pattern, but it should be easy to figure out with
a little Googling.) If you want to filter the whole thread, then just
look for both of our message-IDs in the References header.
--
Bradd W. Szonye
http://www.szonye.com/bradd