From: tickettyboo@mail2oops.com   
      
   On 2018-08-24 08:03:15 +0000, cecilia said:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Apologies, I didn't realise that Free Agent didn't have some way to   
   filter by key words. I do find that odd though, as newsreaders usually   
   do.   
      
   If no one responds to the posts then the clear up by using delete would   
   be even quicker. Whoever (or whatever as I suspect its auto generated)   
   posts this rubbish is highly unlikely to check the ngs to see if they   
   have a response.   
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