Newsreaders to get rid of cross-posts was: Atkins interview transcript

On 18 Aug 2004 16:25:13 GMT, Ignoramus22762
wrote:

This transcript reminded me a Lipitor ad I saw on TV. It depicted a
thin, pale, sad looking woman splashing in water, and said: "___ is a
vegetarian since 1983. Her cholesterol is 262. When diet and exercise
do not help lower cholesterol, try Lipitor". I wonder why it did not
say, if your diet does not work for 21 years, junk your stupid diet
first.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon...instrans.shtml

``Dr GARY FOSTER: We fully expected that this would be a quick and
dirty study. We would show that cholesterol would actually get much
worse. It would be the first and last study of the Atkins diet.

NARRATOR: But when Foster sifted through the data he too couldn't
believe his eyes.

Dr GARY FOSTER: My first reaction was could this be, this doesn't make
a lot of sense. Not only were there no bad effects of the diet in
terms of cholesterol, but actually there were quite positive ones.

NARRATOR: In other words despite the fears about eating lots of fat it
looked as if the Atkins diet might not be bad for the heart after all.

Dr GARY FOSTER: You actually had about a tenfold improvement in
cholesterol compared to a low fat, low calories diet.''

OK, has anyone ever seen a cross-posted message that was worth a damn?
Anyone know of newsreaders that can get rid of cross-posted messages?

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On 18 Aug 2004 16:48:04 GMT, Ignoramus22762
wrote:

slrn does it. I use it and killfile everything posted to
soc.support.fat-acceptance.

i

Cool! Thanks.

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Bob in CT wrote:
On 18 Aug 2004 16:48:04 GMT, Ignoramus22762
wrote:

slrn does it. I use it and killfile everything posted to
soc.support.fat-acceptance.

i

Cool! Thanks.

Hehe, ig was also the person who started 2 crossposted threads ;-)

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:31:37 GMT, Bob in CT
wrote:

Anyone know of newsreaders that can get rid of cross-posted messages?

Nfilter is a supplemental program that may meet your needs.
Specifically, read section 3.5 in the nfilter FAQ.

http://www.netaxs.com/home/v/nfilter/

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:31:37 GMT, Bob in CT
wrote:

Anyone know of newsreaders that can get rid of cross-posted messages?

Nfilter is a supplemental program that may meet your needs.
Specifically, read section 3.5 in the nfilter FAQ.

http://www.netaxs.com/home/v/nfilter/

Bob in CT writes:
Anyone know of newsreaders that can get rid of cross-posted messages?

emacs can do it (heck, emacs can do pretty much anything).

Here's the relevent bits of the SCORE file for that:

(("xref"
("[^:\n]+:[0-9]+ +[^:\n]+:[0-9]+" -1000 nil r))
(mark -20)
(expunge -500)
("head"
("^Newsgroups:.*," -500 nil r)))


(I didn't say it was easy ;-)

Bob in CT writes:
Anyone know of newsreaders that can get rid of cross-posted messages?

emacs can do it (heck, emacs can do pretty much anything).

Here's the relevent bits of the SCORE file for that:

(("xref"
("[^:\n]+:[0-9]+ +[^:\n]+:[0-9]+" -1000 nil r))
(mark -20)
(expunge -500)
("head"
("^Newsgroups:.*," -500 nil r)))


(I didn't say it was easy ;-)

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:59:31 GMT, Crafting Mom
wrote:

Bob in CT wrote:
On 18 Aug 2004 16:48:04 GMT, Ignoramus22762
wrote:

slrn does it. I use it and killfile everything posted to
soc.support.fat-acceptance.

i

Cool! Thanks.

Hehe, ig was also the person who started 2 crossposted threads ;-)

Ah, I didn't know that. I typically try to ignore crossposted stuff, but
I accidently read a few (my newsreader automatically selects a news
"article" sometimes).

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On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:59:31 GMT, Crafting Mom
wrote:

Bob in CT wrote:
On 18 Aug 2004 16:48:04 GMT, Ignoramus22762
wrote:

slrn does it. I use it and killfile everything posted to
soc.support.fat-acceptance.

i

Cool! Thanks.

Hehe, ig was also the person who started 2 crossposted threads ;-)

Ah, I didn't know that. I typically try to ignore crossposted stuff, but
I accidently read a few (my newsreader automatically selects a news
"article" sometimes).

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Ignoramus22762 wrote:
slrn does it. I use it and killfile everything posted to
soc.support.fat-acceptance.

A laudable program. I'm trying to figure out if tin lets me do that. I
can think of about five other groups I'd want to killfile, as well.

Dan
325/211/180
Atkins since 1/1/02 (yeah, it was a New Year's Resolution)
Besetting sins: good beer, German bread, and Krispy Kremes