Hey Shelly!

Well basically they tell me there's a number of automatic filtering methods, mainly swearing,
aggressive language, overly weird text patterns, etc. etc.. (I don't get all of it TBH) Perhaps
I've got the terminology 'KillFile' wrong (i'm new to usenet as you may have guessed)

Basically I noticed that a lot of the posts by trolls kept on going for a long time.. If you look
through Google Groups, it's full of Howedy noise.. So I fugured going into the 'future' and getting
a list of usernames (killfile?) from some quality posters, would mean that we could avoid even
importing anything by him (and others) in the first place. Therefore we can hand check the rest
of the posts, without having to pointlessly remove 1000s of his.

Incedentally what does SOL mean?

Thanks for the feeback


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"Mediasetnews" wrote in message
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Well basically they tell me there's a number of automatic filtering
methods, mainly swearing,
aggressive language, overly weird text patterns, etc. etc.. (I don't
get all of it TBH) Perhaps
I've got the terminology 'KillFile' wrong (i'm new to usenet as you
may have guessed)

I think that may be the case. There are a lot of different variables
that can be combined when filtering Usenet, but as far as I know, "weird
text patters" isn't one of them.

Basically I noticed that a lot of the posts by trolls kept on going
for a long time.. If you look
through Google Groups, it's full of Howedy noise..

Yep.

So I fugured going into the 'future' and getting
a list of usernames (killfile?) from some quality posters,

That may sound like a good plan, but then you're at the mercy of other
people's definition of "quality." For example, I've got a few people
filtered who others here would not have a problem with, but those folks
irritated the hell out of me one time too many, so into the Bozo Bin
they went.

would mean that we could avoid even
importing anything by him (and others) in the first place. Therefore
we can hand check the rest
of the posts, without having to pointlessly remove 1000s of his.

It seems to me that if you've got programmers who can filter on swearing
and weird text patterns, they should be able to figure out how to filter
Howedy for you.

Incedentally what does SOL mean?

**** out of Luck. Which will probably get this post filtered.

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Shelly wrote:
It seems to me that if you've got programmers who can filter on swearing
and weird text patterns, they should be able to figure out how to filter
Howedy for you.

Usenet 101: if it's cross-posted to more than two newsgroups
it's probably not relevant to any of them.
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"Melinda Shore" wrote in message
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Usenet 101: if it's cross-posted to more than two newsgroups
it's probably not relevant to any of them.

I set that rule up so long ago on my other machine (the one with the
real newsreader), that I had forgotten about it. It's a Very Good Rule.
However, I'd be careful mentioning it, because Some Crazy People might
start multi-posting.

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