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Posted by Casey on December 25, 2007, 1:24 pm
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> >> I'd like to setup something like Hamster to filter NG's since Windows
> >> Live
> >> Mail filtering is pretty inept. Hamster may be fine, but I only saw the
> >> German site when I went looking to download it. Can someone recommend an
> >> app that is well supported in English (site and/or download link
> >> appreciated)?
> >
> > Why not use a real, actual, Usenet client instead of the broken email
> > clients that MS provides?
> >
> > If you provided a little more information - what are you wanting to
> > filter?
> >
>
> A number of public NG's that I frequent are being spammed so bad they are
> unusable. alt.comp.freeware is a good example. Users and domains can be
> blocked in Windows Live Mail (WLM), but then the message store has to be
> reset to actually remove the blocked messages. I'd like to be able to
> filter all this crap so that it doesn't reach the newsreader at all, but if
> I can't do that I'd like to use a reader that immediately removes messages
> after the senders are marked as blocked. Outlook Express worked this way,
> but WLM doesn't. I thought that a local server like Hamster might be a good
> way to exert more control, but perhaps a better reader would be enough?
>
>
Try Gravity newsreader v2.7.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=95245
It has an excellent "Kill File" that can be set to block
the objectional posts.
Casey
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