On Tue, 6 Mar 2001 12:58:26 -0500, Wade G. Pemberton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Strike: > >> I've had a bellyful of >> bickering and nit-picking. >> > >You too can become your own list administrator! A 4-5 clicks, type a >couple of words, and Eureka......peace at last. Wade, your Clueless Newbie disease is having a relapse. Strike has been around. He KNOWS what to do. He has also read the "Natural Cycles of a Mailing List" many times, because it had been posted many times. What is happening here is nothing new. Apparently YOU have never read that post that had found its way into NUMEROUS Listserv LISTS, because it captures the same history on most of them. The post was dated 1993. It taught readers how to use the DELETE KEY. That is AFTER a reader sees what author and what subject s/he wants to delete. The killfile is just a newer gimmick that makes an OSTRICH out of you. It doesn't work. You'll read what OTHERS quotes on the person you didn't want to read. What you read will be OUT OF CONTEXT. >Just build a message filter on your inbox, and the offending authors, >message titles, your choice, go straight to the trash bin. No fuss, >no muss. You won't even see 'em. See my paragraph above. The fact that Strike know how to RECALL past articles, cite them properly, and understood each thread, strongely suggests that he already knew what to do MUCH BETTER THAN Wade. Just use the webpage archives. There is NOTHING to filter. You selectively read (or not read) what has been posted, based on AUTHOR and SUBJECT. I have said it to Lee, who boasted that he filtered me, that anyone who resorts to a filter is "intellectually bankrupt". I stated the same in rec.scuba recently (perhaps it was on the days you didn't read me there <smirk>). Therefore, Wade, you are no exception. You are INTELLECTUALLY BANKRUPT, and don't try to spread your bad influence here. >You'll wonder how you ever lived without it. That's what censors said about the fire that burnt books. > >It's amazing how quiet it gets. It's also amazing how nuggets or pearls of wisdom are blissfully missed by said intellectually bankrupt "reader". >If you ever want to see what you've missed, just look in the trash >before you take it out. > >Wade Besides intellectually bankrupt, you are also very OUTDATED in your knowledge about the TECHNOLOGY of archives retrieval which exists under your very eye -- but of course you're so clever that you are BLIND to it. -- Bob.