Ignorance and Google Groups (again)

[Philip Semanchuk]

On Jun 30, 2010, at 4:55 PM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:10:43 -0700 (PDT)
> garryTX <garry5563 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Jun 29, 5:31 pm, nanothermite911fbibustards
> [...]
>> you ignorant mf.  stfu.
>
> You shouldn't be calling people ignorant for what they post if you are
> just going to repost every word again.  Everything that applies to him
> applies to you.
>
> I have had it with GG.  For the last few months I have been filtering
> all mail from gmail.com that comes through the news gateway into a
> separate folder to see where the spam and abuse comes from.  Over that
> time about 99% of all the useless crap has been caught in that filter.
> It's unfortunate that there are some decent posts as well but I have
> finally decided that the peace and quiet is worth more than the odd
> missed gem.  So, if you are accessing this list through GG and wonder
> why I seem to be ignoring your brilliant arguments, this is why.
>
> If anyone is interested in the procmail recipe I will be using, here  
> it
> is in all it's glory.
>
> :0: Hir
> * ^List-Id:.*python-list.python.org
> * ^From:.*@gmail.com
> * ^Newsgroups:
> /dev/null

For a few weeks I've been tossing anything sent to the Python list  
with an Organization header == http://groups.google.com (based on  
someone else's suggestion) and it's vastly improved the signal/noise  
ratio for me.

HTH
P