Twit Filter for Netscape Communicator 4.6.
I'm guessing this is on all versions (4.x) of Communicator.
As you read a newsgroup such as alt.religion.christian.episcopal, you will almost invariably come across a few individuals whom you find offensive. Unfortunately it seems they all have plenty of time to post, at length, something inflammatory into nearly every conversation. Outlook Express has a twit filter which allows you to delete all the offender's rantings from your view of the group. The misbegotten wretch is still out there, you just don't see him. You'll still see the poor souls who reply to him, but you can serenely move to the next message with a minimum of hassle.
(From this point on you'll probably want to use the mouse on the scroll bar to the right for a smooth transistion between the text and pictures. In the screen shots below, the cursor is shown on the spot you would click. )
Let's walk through an example by removing a serious twit... Looking at my favorite newsgroup I see, oh no! Not that insufferable idiot Bill Jones again!
Click Edit and Message Filters...
Click New...
Enter that idiot bill in Filter name. Then click the first drop down
menu and select sender.
Click the second drop down menu and select is
lefff
Enter that twit bill@netdoor.com
Description is optional and click OK (note there are two OK
buttons and click the top one)
Now back at Message Filters, click OK
...and you're done. It may be the next time you logon before it takes effect. If you have a change of heart and decide to see what the twit is posting now, follow the first step above and in the second step, click on the twit's name and then click Delete.
Notes:
Use the twit filter sparingly. If you just block everyone who disagrees with you, I suspect you will soon tire of the newsgroup. You'll want to monitor a potential twit for several days before giving up on him. Maybe he's a nice guy who just had a bad day.
Finally, let us pause to offer a brief prayer for the well being of the programmer who invented the twit filter, and a slightly longer prayer for those misguided souls we've had to block. Perhaps we should include ourselves for our unwillingness to put up with their drivel...umm...no, I think not. <g>
God's Peace...
bill+
7/30/99