>>A short summary of the twit filter concept:
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>>filter the news
>>There are two big problems with Usenet newsgroups these days: first, popular groups get more messages than anyone would ever want to read; second, undesirable, disruptive individuals (let's call them "twits" for short) show up whenever a large number of people congregate in a newsgroup. Outlook Express's newsgroup filters can help solve both problems.
>>Select Tools/Newsgroup Filters from the main menu to get started. Click Add to create a new filter. In the Where To Filter section, select the group you want to filter, and then add your own info to the "Do not show messages that meet the following criteria" section. For example, if you know that a certain twit uses the same email address for all his or her postings, enter that address in the From line. If a certain news thread has become overly long and annoying, you can avoid it by typing the subject line in the Subject box. You can also choose to avoid messages over a certain length or age.
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>Hmmm ... it could be highly uncomplementary to be placed on someone's "twit" filter. :-)
OTOH, if done discretely, the person twitted never is aware of it, and it's done for my comfort and not theirs. They can pointedly ask me if they're on my twit filter, and since I have no intention of responding, except perhaps in private to someone not on my twit list to let them know they're not twitted, I just didn't have an answer, or someone else had answered, or I missed their post. Deciding to place someone on my twit filter is not an atempt to annoy them, it's an attempt to keep me from getting annoyed. And I have a feeling the people who did make the list either knew I'd rather not deal with them to begin with, will add me to theirs, or will never notice the change except that I seem to have stopped expressing my opinions in direct response to what they say.
Again, it violates the basis of how a twit filter does it's job to chuckle and chortle over the list of people you've decided you're better off without. Presumably, you're better off without them...
