Many newsreaders allow you to “killfile” a particular poster so that you
never have to look at his or her posts. If you are using a unix
command-line newsreader, see:
https://nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/documents/killfiles [broken link 1]
The quick answer is to access your KILL file with control-K, and
add this line:
/mgiwer@.*netcom/f:j (Giwer changes his userid every ten minutes or
so, apparently in the belief that we won’t recognize him. That makes
the success of this particular command problematic. A more effective
method is to use the data in the header field Message-ID:
/news\.ij\.net/HMessage-ID:j
If you are using a Mac to read news, we recommend “Yet Another
Newswatcher,” which supports killfiles. See:
http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/cgi-bin/NewSearch?key?key=yet+another+news (page does not exist)
If you are using a Windows machine to read news, we don’t have any tips
at the moment — stop by later, we’re working on it.
