Often there is a way to set filters in your newsreader program. I use Mozilla Thunderbird but I'm pretty sure OE and others do this too. In Thunderbird go to the "Message" menu and select "Create filter from message". You can have everything with "anon" and/or "anonymous" sent directly to the trash and never even know it was posted unless someone replies to it.
Some other newsreaders let you "kill file" particular posters too, sometimes as easily as with a ctrl-K hot key.
Be careful tho -- or you'll miss all the thank you's and conversations about/from our anonymous squishers! Might want to use the word remailer... that one we don't use often!
Kate in MI
Thunderbird but I'm
menu and select
"anonymous" sent directly
as easily as with a
I've been very lucky in that my usenet server has blocked all of the recent remailer messages.
I don't filter stuff by the subject line but by the actual posting address that has either "so and so @anon.wherever" or "Anonymous-Remailer@wherever" as the sender.
Ms Anon Y. Mouse is *always* welcome!!
Anne > Be careful tho -- or you'll miss all the thank you's and conversations
about/from our anonymous
Thunderbird but I'm
menu and select
"anonymous" sent directly
as easily as with a
I believe there may be at least one legit poster here with "anon" in her email addy. You'd do better to filter on the specific remailer addresses as they come to light. As I just mentioned in another thread, the current troll has been using these:
snipped-for-privacy@comments.header snipped-for-privacy@see.comment.header snipped-for-privacy@bigapple.yi.org
Blocking those has kept them out of my site so far. I still get the replies from other folks, though. Agent does have an "ignore thread" option among its kill actions, but I don't mind seeing the replies.
JA
^^^^ sight :P
I set my "blocked" to included those 3 emailers. It is easy in Outlook Express.
How? Outlook Express has me totally flummoxed.
Outlook express [from main screen, not from an individual message] Tools: message rules>blocked senders list. Add Insert emails as noted below, click on NEWS and MAIL done.
From an individual email if you happen to open an offending one, select MESSAGE>block sender and the sender of the email/ newsgroup message will be blocked.
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