N.B. Still morphing in order to - try to - help Ken Blake.

Earlier today. I wrote:

N.B. Intentional one-time morph, in case you've already killfiled me.

Ken Blake wrote:
On 14 Oct 2018 18:01:45 GMT, Frank Slootweg
wrote:

Arlen Holder wrote:

And once again, 'Arlen' draws first blood, while stamping his feet
claiming that he doesn't and emitting yet another of his broken record
tantrums.

I was hoping that sooner or later you and R. Wieser would both get
tired of complaining about and replying to Arlen Holder (who is
killfiled here) and replying to him, and either killfile him or just
ignore his messages.

Since it looks like it will never happen and I not only have to read
his messages that the two of you quote and your tirades against him,
I'm killfiling you both to end it. I was hoping I would never have to
do this and you would both get tired of replying, and either killfile
or ignore him. Since you don't, goodbye to you both.

I understand your point and you're of course free to do as you see
fit.

Having said that, some comments:

1. In most (all?) newsreaders, one can mark a thread as read. If you do
that as soon as 'Arlen Holder' starts a new thread, you won't see
anything, i.e. not out quibbles.

Paul already confirmed that Agent can do this ('Ignore thread').
Thanks, Paul.

2. You may want to check if Agent has a 'Ignore thread started by poster'
feature. If so you can do 1. automatically.

I checked my old notes and Agent *does* seem to have a 'Ignore thread
started by poster' feature.

This is a partial quote from a 2011 posting in news.software.readers
[1]:

quote

In Agent 6.0, killfiling "JohnDoe" and choosing as Action "Ignore
Thread" means (after setting my View to 'not ignored') I see nothing of
his posts and nothing of those who respond to him.

/quote

So Ken, it seems that in Agent you can killfile 'Arlen''s threads
completely (i.e. also any and all responses), without killfiling us (R.
Wieser and me) in other threads.

3. There are many, many others (than R. Wieser and me) who respond to
'Arlen Holder' (see his recent list(s) of 'vermin'). Do you want to
killfile all those posters?

[1]

From: Bart Dinnissen
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
Subject: Looking for another newsreader
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 23:18:20 +0200
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