Re: This group is dead. Time to put it out of its misery?

On 11/06/10 22:16, Reverend Ozone wrote:

> On 11/4/2010 22:23, The Real Bev wrote:
>>  On 11/04/10 06:14, J. Weaver Jr. wrote:
>>>  Miles wrote:
>>>>  * Rich Gray wrote, On 01-Nov-10 17:42:
>>>>>  A Williams wrote:
>>>>>>  RIP news:mozilla.wishlist - spammed to death.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Time to block Google Groups!
>>>>>
>>>>  So how does one go about filtering out Google Groups?
>>>>  Miles
>>>
>>>  I've added the following message filter to "news.mozilla.org":
>>>
>>>  If "X-Complaints-To" contains "[email protected]"
>>>  Tag Message "Work"
>>>
>>>  This changes all messages posted from Google Groups to a lovely shade of
>>>  orange, making them easier to spot (and ignore). -JW

Unfortunately they don't show up as orange until they're marked 'read.' 
  I'm pretty sure because I've put something in one of my chrome files 
that makes unread messages bold and blue, which must supersede the 
'work' color.  Nothing is ever easy :-(

>>  I like that. Killing all GG posters ("mark read") resulted in
>>  eliminating posts from several people who were NOT loons or spammers,
>>  but your way is much nicer. Thanks.
>
> A hearty "ditto" for this solution.
>
> I, too, have had deleted too many "good" posts from the previous (now
> amended to this) solution.

I haven't bothered in the mozilla groups.  Not enough loons to make it 
worth the bother.  In fact, I just removed the googlegroups entry. 
We'll see...

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