From Newsgroup: alt.fan.usenet

On 2026-04-30, D <noreply@mixmin.net> wrote:

the global "ignore" filter automatically
ignores all articles in all newsgroups, except
for articles with overview headers that have
been filtered in other ways, generally, either
whitelisted or blacklisted, promoted, watched,
retained, or demoted, ignored, purged, moved,
etc.

...

thus, whitelisted text strings in overview
headers are normalized, unignored, allowing
those articles to appear normally in the news-
reader, and a select few are promoted, saved,
watched, researched, etc., but the vast majority
of usenet articles are simply ignored, any
replies to ignored articles are obscured in
collapsed threads, then purged at the user's
discretion...sayonara to the troll farm

Amazing what machinations people will go through
when, for example, the "next" key ('n' in slrn)
is rocket science for them....
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