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   Message 118,919 of 119,658   
   Bert Hyman to Ed Stasiak   
   Re: META+ The Root Cause of Usenet's Dec   
   30 Dec 10 19:28:40   
   
   3ff2e20b   
   XPost: news.groups, rec.arts.comics.dc.universe, rec.arts.sf.tv   
   XPost: rec.arts.tv   
   From: bert@iphouse.com   
      
   In news:2edb3cd1-4b00-4807-bb8e-e2a2de7e4682@s5g2000yqm.googlegroups.com   
   Ed Stasiak  wrote:   
      
   >> Whiskers   
   >>   
   >> This project seeks to offer help for newbies wishing to use their own   
   >> news-reader software features to filter out the bulk of the noise (by   
   >> the simple expedient of blocking all articles posted from Google).   
   >   
   > It's been mentioned that Google, with 30% of Usenet users, represents   
   > the largest percent of posters.  If you're going to killfile all of us   
   > in one fell swoop, you're going to end up being pretty lonely.   
      
   I filter all posts by googlegroupers which are the head of a thread (no   
   References: header) but pass followups from them.   
      
   Nothing personal.   
      
   --   
   Bert Hyman	St. Paul, MN	bert@iphouse.com   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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