Re: [sumo] Dale and the Sumo list Killfile entry

["Whitney" <kishiko@charter.net>]

Hi Alex,

   Thank you for the help. I have put Dulka on my blocked email sender list so any messages he sends to either myself or the sumo list automatically go in the deleted items folder. Just where they belong.

Whitney :)
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Ferguson" <abf@cs.ucc.ie>
To: <sumo@statgen.ncsu.edu>
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: [sumo] Dale and the Sumo list Killfile entry


> On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 08:09:54AM -0500, Whitney wrote:
> > I hope Dale gets this message because I have never heard of a killfile
> > entry. If it is something real, I want him to explain it to me so I
> > can start my own killfile. I hope that he was not using sarcasm.
> 
> There is indeed such a thing;  it's newsgroup-speak for what in mail
> programs would normally be called a (set of) filter rule(s).  In either
> case, one configures the program to (say, hypothetically) delete a whole
> thread, delete all postings from some Contentious Individual(TM),
> messages with TOO MUCH ALL-CAPS 'SHOUTING', etc.  Details vary
> considerably, however, depending on which mail program or newreader
> you're using.
> 
> Hope that's of some help.  Those hoping for cyber-assassination may, I
> suppose, be disappointed.
> 
> Cheers,
> Alex.
> [EndPost by Alex Ferguson <abf@cs.ucc.ie>]

[EndPost by "Whitney" <kishiko@charter.net>]