On Sunday, July 9, 2017 at 8:59:45 PM UTC-4, timetowalk wrote: > On Sunday, July 9, 2017 at 8:05:59 PM UTC-4, Michael Torrie wrote: > > On 07/09/2017 05:39 PM, timetowal...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I use https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.lang.python to look > > > over message posts. > > > > > > What's with all of the Case Solution and Test Bank nonsense posts? > > > Is is possible to have these posts filtered out? > > > > I'm sure Google could filter them if it chose. Behind the group, > > though, is the Usenet newsgroup, which is unmoderated and decentralized, > > and you can't filter there. That's why most people read Usenet with a > > good news reader app that can apply filtering and kill rules for you. > > > > And of course the mailing list side of things does filter out messages > > and kills certain points. Probably your cleanest experience will come > > through the mailing list. Use an email folder and a filter to place all > > list serv emails in a folder and you'll get a good experience. You can > > even do this with Gmail. My gmail account has all my list serv messages > > sorted out on the Gmail server into labels, and I have a special rule to > > killfile messages from some sources. > > I will need to read about filtering messages locally. > Can the admin simply ban the user?
I wrote this Python script to locally ban (block, kill file, plonk, whatever you want to call it) authors and posted it here a little while back. This way I don't have to turn on javascript to look at the google groups list. https://groups.google.com/forum/?_escaped_fragment_=msg/comp.lang.python/EKRYfj06OeA/RnpM6stNAwAJ#!msg/comp.lang.python/EKRYfj06OeA/RnpM6stNAwAJ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
