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From: elg@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM (Eric Lee Green)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: How to Exclude All Posts from a Site
Message-ID: <00674008800@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM>
Date: 12 May 91 00:40:00 GMT
References: <1991May11.045046.14148@tygra.Michigan.COM>
Organization: Eric's Amiga 2000 @ Home
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From article <1991May11.045046.14148@tygra.Michigan.COM>, by jp@tygra.Michigan.COM (John Palmer):
> I need to find a way to exclude all posts from a particular site from
> even making it into my junk group let alone any other groups.

Note that this is often known as "being a bad net.citizen", due to the
possibilities that this creates for censorship and abuse. There was much
discussion about adding such a feature to CNEWS, and the end result was
that most people agreed that it'd be a Bad Idea, causing too much
disruption of news flows as people around the net plunked sites into their
Usenet Death Penalty file and never took them out.

If you really have problems with the postings of a certain person at a
certain site, just put that person in your kill file. That's a lot more
network-friendly than arbitrarily removing postings from the flow of
netnews.

--
Eric Lee Green   (318) 984-1820  P.O. Box 92191  Lafayette, LA 70509
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