From: myths@ic24.net   
      
   On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:55:08 +0100, Tickettyboo   
    wrote:   
   [...]   
   >> You don't say how you are accessing soc.genealogy.britain   
   >   
   >Doesn't need to, if you view the full headers in a newsreader you can   
   >see the OP uses Forte Agent - which, as has been suggested has a   
   >facility to filter posts by key words and not download them from the   
   >server.   
      
   My earlier free version of Forte Free Agent doesn't offer filters.   
      
    I prefer it (possibly merely from familiarity) to other newsresders I   
   have tried.   
      
    I tend to download messages once a day and have found that   
   permanently deleting the offending threads means that the new messages   
   congregate as new threads at the end of the messages,   I select them   
   in block(s) and hold down the shift key while selecting Delete in the   
   right-click menu.  The reduction in non-offensive new threads means   
   that I rarely have to do more than two blocks and usually only one.   
      
   I hardly notice them or the effort now.   
      
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