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From: pi@bridge.bloomington.in.us (Raymond L. Gilbert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: What's going on in this newsgroup??
Date: 30 Apr 1995 21:36:22 GMT
Organization: A FreeBSD Enthusiast
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Thus it was recorded by the prophets, jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) said:
>The last few days I've been seeing articles with this kind of stuff in the
>header:
[...]
>Can we make this stop?  PLEASE?  I already have enough trouble staying active
>here without having to read everything twice!

Yeah I've been highly annoyed with it myself.. I first thought it was
J"org's fault since he posts here so much.. ;-)  Anyways, I've added
the following line to my KILL file:

/^Organization: Phantom of Infinity Soft Labs/h:j=

A bit slow, but it's definitely faster than actually *reading*
everything twice... ;-)
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| Raymond L. Gilbert       | "...the present rule in computing the circle's  |
| pi@indiana.edu           |  area is entirely wrong..."                     |
| IUB Dept. of Physics     |  - Bill No. 246, Indiana State Legislature, 1897|
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