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On 10/18/2024 5:30 AM, badgolferman wrote:

<snip>

> Killfiles are only good for pretending you have control over someone
> else.  You will still see their messages in someone else's reply.
> Might as well killfile everyone but yourself!

The goal is not to control anyone, they can post whatever they want.

There are so many posters that add no value to a newsgroup, or that are 
pathological liars, that to have those posts filling up the screen and 
having to scroll through them to find anything of value, is a waste of time.

Yes, if someone follows up to someone in the filter list then I'd still 
see their reply, but the reality is often that filtered people are all 
only replying to each other.

When a long off-topic thread starts up, I can filter by subject.

I've build up Thunderbird filter lists over many years and I transfer 
the profile to new computers. I also share it to help others clean up 
their newsgroups.

You can see my shared filter list for this group at 
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WPGXgOjUHPDwWzFQ444zMfvciUfFLTsC6p7vk5IuPmE>