On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 03:24:53 GMT, Bay Area Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
>Here are some of the recent threads that my twit filter obscured from my
>perusal:
Isn't it rather dangerous to be running a "twit filter", Dave ?
What if it back-fired ?
Andy Dingley <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 03:24:53 GMT, Bay Area Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Here are some of the recent threads that my twit filter obscured from my
> >perusal:
>
> Isn't it rather dangerous to be running a "twit filter", Dave ?
>
> What if it back-fired ?
LOL!
Doug, if you EVER had a nice thing to say to me, I'd fall over in a swoon!
dave
Doug Miller wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, Bay Area Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Here are some of the recent threads that my twit filter obscured from my
>>perusal:
>>
>
> [snip of more BAD self-absorbed irrelevantia]
>
> Too bad *my* twit filter doesn't catch posts like this.
>
> --
> Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)
>
> How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America?
Bay Area Dave wrote:
> Here are some of the recent threads that my twit filter obscured from my
> perusal:
>
> Wood tough enough for a dog
> Death of Shop Dog
> M & T Joints. Near orgasmic experience
> JET Tool service SUCKS
>
>
> It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see what word in each topic
> triggered the filter, huh? :)
>
>
> dave
And you missed a lot because of it! That's why I perfer to filter news
manually. If you don't like the way the subject sounds just don't open it.
Rich
--
"You can lead them to LINUX
but you can't make them THINK"
In article <[email protected]>, Bay Area Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
>Here are some of the recent threads that my twit filter obscured from my
>perusal:
>
[snip of more BAD self-absorbed irrelevantia]
Too bad *my* twit filter doesn't catch posts like this.
--
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)
How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America?
EvoDawg wrote:
>> It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see what word in each topic
>> triggered the filter, huh? :)
> And you missed a lot because of it! That's why I perfer to filter news
> manually. If you don't like the way the subject sounds just don't open it.
Dunno, in my case the word my twit filter reacts to is "Bay Area Dave" and I
like that just fine.
Sure has been quiet since I did that.
--
Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[email protected]>
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
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On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 21:18:14 GMT, Bay Area Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
>For grins I checked the filter log today and found it trapped "assume"
>because "ass" was one of the filter criteria. It wasn't programmed to
>distinguish that the criteria should be treated only as whole words.
When I was programming filters for my email client I found that if you
leave a space before and after "ass" it will filter "ass" but it won't
filter "morass" or "assume."
I don't know if that will work with your news reader.
LRod
Master Woodbutcher and seasoned termite
Shamelessly whoring my website since 1999
http://www.woodbutcher.net
For grins I checked the filter log today and found it trapped "assume"
because "ass" was one of the filter criteria. It wasn't programmed to
distinguish that the criteria should be treated only as whole words.
dave
EvoDawg wrote:
> Bay Area Dave wrote:
>
>
>>Here are some of the recent threads that my twit filter obscured from my
>>perusal:
>>
>>Wood tough enough for a dog
>>Death of Shop Dog
>>M & T Joints. Near orgasmic experience
>>JET Tool service SUCKS
>>
>>
>>It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see what word in each topic
>>triggered the filter, huh? :)
>>
>>
>>dave
>
>
> And you missed a lot because of it! That's why I perfer to filter news
> manually. If you don't like the way the subject sounds just don't open it.
>
> Rich
>