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In article <360c18ba.29280983@news.alt.net>, KittWulf, KittWulf@goplayXXX.com 
tossed this thought out into the electronic ether for all of us here to read, 
and said.......
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>On 25 Sep 1998 18:27:28 GMT, just@little.pest� (wildman�) wrote:
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>>In article <360db076.2584977@news.alt.net>, KittWulf, KittWulf@goplayXXX.com 
>>tossed this thought out into the electronic ether for all of us here to read, 
>>and said.......
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>>>....for coming up with the new service for Direct Altopia news
>>>customers who can now have the server filter out articles
>>>based on the number of groups they are cross-posted to.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Kitt Wulf
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>>Huh??? This part has been in effect for a long time; I've been using it to 
>>filter out cross-posted articles since way back. One merely added to their 
>>username the numbers and colons, like foo:1:3 for example, which would filter 
>>out any post cross posted to more than 3 NG's. The addition of the filter for 
>>the number of articles in newsgroups is new!!!
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>The first I heard about it was through an update dated September 19,
>1998.  'Course, when you have to spend half your online time creating
>new twitfilters because of some group of morons whose sole mission it
>is to keep morphing to escape those twitfilters out of some infantile
>campaign to harass non-flame newsgroups then there isn't a whole lot
>of time left over for any meaningful research online which might
>uncover some answers to the problem.....
>
>BTW, Antaine = Cuchulaine = HFW  (He still hasn't learned how to post
>properly to a thread.)
>
>--
>Kitt Wulf
>
I guess you didn't know about the status page at the web site 
(http://www.altopia.com/status.htm); good place to check out once in a 
while. Sorry if I offended you; you must be new here at Altopia!!!
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        wildman