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   From: catwheezel@operamail.com   
      
   On 2010-12-30, 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.   
      
   Those of us with sufficiently powerful newsreaders can easily create a   
   list of Googlers whose thread-starting posts are worth reading.  In fact a   
   killfile is a very crude tool, although some newsreaders can't do any   
   better.   
      
   The program I use, slrn, has the ability to 'score' articles based on   
   several different factors - so yours for example gets a score of   
   -99 for being posted using Google, and a score of 5000 for being a direct   
   reply to one of mine, making a total score of 4901.  Even if it only   
   scored -99 I would still have seen it threaded in with the other replies -   
   but marked as 'read' so that I have to make a deliberate effort to read it.   
   A Google post not replying to anything, would be pushed to the bottom of   
   the list of articles and marked as read so that I'd only see it the first   
   time I visit that group after the Google article arrives.   
      
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