Add just this one string to Agent's Kill-Filter and 98% of all troll posts and replies are gone ....

Just make a "kill filter", action "delete", with a scope of group:
rec.photo.digital (or "global" if you prefer) using this string (all
on one single line):


Subject: cock* | nigg* | jew* | troll* | ***** | slut* | tits |
cult* | nazi* | spank* | horton* | lionel* | testicl* | puss* |
humphries* | cain* | midget* | dean* | russel* | kook* | ass


(you can fine tune that with your own ascii strings (as they try to
circumvent their more childish remarks with new comments to fellow
trolls), the | character is the "or" function, the * wildcard
ensures any match with the prefixed string)

Only you can control what you see and don't see on the net. Take
responsibility for your own access to valid information. The
noise-makers eventually go away to find those that pay attention to
their childish and desperate cries for attention. Adding just that
one filter string (above) makes rec.photo.digital look like the
newsgroup it once used to be. Yes, a small portion of valid posts
will be gone using those ascii strings in a kill-filter, but it's a
sacrifice one has to make at times -- acceptable collateral damage.

In the wise words of someone from a chat-room one time:

"Those that use "ignore" online is usually nothing more than a way
to retain their bliss though self-induced ignorance, ignoring
anything or anyone that might challenge their easily disproved
beliefs. However, the art and theories of noise-suppression to try
to find meaningful data among all the useless noise is another type
of ignoring, which can be quite beneficial when used judiciously on
all the online noise-makers."

Do yourself a favor, learn to suppress noise in favor of enhancing
meaningful data. You learn to do it for your photos, learn to do it
with information on usenet too. It's no different, and the tool to
accomplish it is right at your fingertips -- USE IT.

Thanks for a very helpful posting.

Thanks for a very helpful posting.