>>>>>This is another argument to get rid of the twit filter. It's an absurd invention from the UT.
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>>>>While I have never used a twit filter, I assure you it's not a UT invention. Similar mechanisms exist in many online venues.
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>>>Not in all that I have visited sofar, AFAIK. But sure, prove that there's a black swan somewhere and the proposition that all swans are white has been falsified.
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>>>Perhaps someone can point to such an other online venue. Then we can compare their functional design of the filter with the one that's implemented here.
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>>Pretty much all newsgroup readers support twit filters. I think, though, that the name will be something else. Looks like Agent, which I use, calls them "kill filters."
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>The places I visit have the option to ban someone from the own weblog. Can you point to a newsgroup?

As I said, it's the newsreader software that supports this functionality. I know that both Outlook Express and Agent have it.

Tamar