on 8/24/2007 1:22 AM Pat Flannery said the following:
>> Thanks to the ones who told me that "kill file" was blocking a sender
>> - it was a pleasure to watch the crap fly away!
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> Pat
I don't see how that can happen.
If you kill file the Subject, you don't see any responding messages from
anyone else too. This is good when the subject messages becomes a
pissing contest, or a personal battle of half-wits between two or more
respondents.
This is a rarity in this group, but these type of messages can run for
days in other groups.

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Pat Flannery - 28 Aug 2007 03:00 GMT
> I don't see how that can happen.
> If you kill file the Subject, you don't see any responding messages
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> This is a rarity in this group, but these type of messages can run
> for days in other groups.
Took me days to figure out what was going on; he went by the name of
something like "lordphilter" or "kingphilter" but incorperated command
coding into name itself (the meaning of the name became obvius when I
saw what it did).
So what would happen when you tried to enter his name into Mozilla as a
filter to delete the message if it was from that sender is that it
caused all messages in that newsgroup to be deleted.
I took out the message filter, and everything went back to normal.
It was pretty slick to see it in action, though I don't know if it would
work with email programs other than Mozilla.
I wrote to the newsgroup about it (it was either sci.space.policy or
sci.space.history), but haven't been able to track down the message in a
Google search yet.
Pat