• To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths

    From Farley Flud@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 20 12:29:03 2025
    Attention all Microslop fat mouths.

    You all jabber about that junk Winblows being God's gift to humanity,
    well let's see you all put your money, as it were, where your fat mouths
    are.

    The Pan newsreader does not distribute an M$ Winblows version and we need
    you all to compile one for us. The source code is here:

    https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pan/-/releases/v0.161

    There are unofficial Winblows versions provided but they are all
    junk in that they constantly crash as well as being way behind the
    current version.

    So put your mighty (sic) Microslop machines to work and build us a perfect
    Pan version with that superb (sic) Microslop software. Then post the result somewhere.

    C'mon, get moving. It shouldn't take y'all more than 20 minutes.

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! They're already crawling back into
    their fetid holes.

    I wish they'd stay there, but once their shame lessens they'll be back.



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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 20 14:23:09 2025
    On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 12:29:03 +0000, Farley Flud <[email protected]>
    wrote in <181c6665cdacd782$115936$445945$[email protected]>:

    User-Agent: Pan/0.146 (Hic habitat felicitas; d7a48b4 gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pan.git)

    The Pan newsreader does not distribute an M$ Winblows version and we need
    you all to compile one for us. The source code is here:

    https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pan/-/releases/v0.161

    There are unofficial Winblows versions provided but they are all junk in
    that they constantly crash as well as being way behind the current
    version.

    So why is Feeb so far behind the current version?

    Answer: Because Feeb is a distro lackey, and can't compile his
    own Pan.

    Demanding that anybody else do so, then, is Feeb's hypocrisy.

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  • From Tyrone@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 20 14:37:15 2025
    On Jan 20, 2025 at 7:29:03 AM EST, "Farley Fucktard" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Translation:

    I, Farley Fucktard "programming genius", am too fucking stupid to do this. Please someone compile it for me so I can run it on my Windows PC at work, thereby pretending to be using Linux when I post here from work. As extra-special motivation for you to do this for me, I will insult you.

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! They're already crawling back into
    their fetid holes.

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha indeed!

    I wish they'd stay there, but once their shame lessens they'll be back.

    That's what we say about you, everytime you make a fool of yourself. IOW, everytime you post here.

    Compile it yourself, ShitForBrains kiddie that you are.

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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 20 14:47:08 2025
    On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 14:32:36 +0000, Farley Flud <[email protected]>
    wrote in <181c6d23b15861e7$134649$443765$[email protected]>:

    On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 14:23:09 +0000, vallor wrote:


    Answer: Because Feeb is a distro lackey, and can't compile his
    own Pan.


    Idiot.

    I want the Winblows version compiled. Can't you fucking read?

    Idiot^2

    Obviously, because he can't compile it there either.

    (He's not very bright, is he? If he can't build Pan on
    Linux, of _course_ he'll have trouble with Windows.)

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  • From Tyrone@21:1/5 to Tyrone on Mon Jan 20 14:45:28 2025
    On Jan 20, 2025 at 9:37:15 AM EST, "Tyrone" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Jan 20, 2025 at 7:29:03 AM EST, "Farley Fucktard" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Translation:

    I, Farley Fucktard "programming genius", am too fucking stupid to do this. Please someone compile it for me so I can run it on my Windows PC at work, thereby pretending to be using Linux when I post here from work. As extra-special motivation for you to do this for me, I will insult you.

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! They're already crawling back into
    their fetid holes.

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha indeed!

    I wish they'd stay there, but once their shame lessens they'll be back.

    That's what we say about you, everytime you make a fool of yourself. IOW, everytime you post here.

    Compile it yourself, ShitForBrains kiddie that you are.

    BTW, 0.146 is already available as a Windows msi installer download. But of course, that assumes one is smart enough to find it.

    Which obviously rules you out.

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  • From CrudeSausage@21:1/5 to Tyrone on Mon Jan 20 09:53:59 2025
    On 1/20/25 9:37 AM, Tyrone wrote:
    On Jan 20, 2025 at 7:29:03 AM EST, "Farley Fucktard" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Translation:

    I, Farley Fucktard "programming genius", am too fucking stupid to do this. Please someone compile it for me so I can run it on my Windows PC at work, thereby pretending to be using Linux when I post here from work. As extra-special motivation for you to do this for me, I will insult you.

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! They're already crawling back into
    their fetid holes.

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha indeed!

    I wish they'd stay there, but once their shame lessens they'll be back.

    That's what we say about you, everytime you make a fool of yourself. IOW, everytime you post here.

    Compile it yourself, ShitForBrains kiddie that you are.

    If we're lucky, the incoming Department of Government Efficiency will
    determine that Larry Pietraskiewicz is a waste of American energy and
    oxygen and have him shot in the back of the head, Democrat-style. We can
    then replace him with some Indian through the H1B program.

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  • From Farley Flud@21:1/5 to vallor on Mon Jan 20 14:32:36 2025
    On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 14:23:09 +0000, vallor wrote:


    Answer: Because Feeb is a distro lackey, and can't compile his
    own Pan.


    Idiot.

    I want the Winblows version compiled. Can't you fucking read?

    Idiot^2




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  • From Tyrone@21:1/5 to CrudeSausage on Mon Jan 20 16:03:04 2025
    On Jan 20, 2025 at 9:53:59 AM EST, "CrudeSausage" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 1/20/25 9:37 AM, Tyrone wrote:
    On Jan 20, 2025 at 7:29:03 AM EST, "Farley Fucktard" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Translation:

    I, Farley Fucktard "programming genius", am too fucking stupid to do this. >> Please someone compile it for me so I can run it on my Windows PC at work, >> thereby pretending to be using Linux when I post here from work. As
    extra-special motivation for you to do this for me, I will insult you.

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! They're already crawling back into
    their fetid holes.

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha indeed!

    I wish they'd stay there, but once their shame lessens they'll be back.

    That's what we say about you, everytime you make a fool of yourself. IOW,
    everytime you post here.

    Compile it yourself, ShitForBrains kiddie that you are.

    If we're lucky, the incoming Department of Government Efficiency will determine that Larry Pietraskiewicz is a waste of American energy and
    oxygen and have him shot in the back of the head, Democrat-style. We can
    then replace him with some Indian through the H1B program.

    Monty Python's Dead Parrot would be an improvement over FF.

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  • From CrudeSausage@21:1/5 to Tyrone on Mon Jan 20 11:28:46 2025
    On 1/20/25 11:03 AM, Tyrone wrote:
    On Jan 20, 2025 at 9:53:59 AM EST, "CrudeSausage" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 1/20/25 9:37 AM, Tyrone wrote:
    On Jan 20, 2025 at 7:29:03 AM EST, "Farley Fucktard" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Translation:

    I, Farley Fucktard "programming genius", am too fucking stupid to do this. >>> Please someone compile it for me so I can run it on my Windows PC at work, >>> thereby pretending to be using Linux when I post here from work. As
    extra-special motivation for you to do this for me, I will insult you.

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! They're already crawling back into
    their fetid holes.

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha indeed!

    I wish they'd stay there, but once their shame lessens they'll be back. >>>
    That's what we say about you, everytime you make a fool of yourself. IOW, >>> everytime you post here.

    Compile it yourself, ShitForBrains kiddie that you are.

    If we're lucky, the incoming Department of Government Efficiency will
    determine that Larry Pietraskiewicz is a waste of American energy and
    oxygen and have him shot in the back of the head, Democrat-style. We can
    then replace him with some Indian through the H1B program.

    Monty Python's Dead Parrot would be an improvement over FF.

    And a better programmer!

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  • From DFS@21:1/5 to Lameass Loser Larry Pietraskiewicz on Mon Jan 20 13:14:58 2025
    On 1/20/2025 7:29 AM, Lameass Loser Larry Pietraskiewicz wrote:


    build us a perfect Pan version


    Somebody hep me get a Windows GUI! You know I can't post witout a GUI
    Momma!

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  • From DFS@21:1/5 to Farley Flud on Mon Jan 20 13:22:06 2025
    On 1/20/2025 7:29 AM, Farley Flud wrote:
    Attention all Microslop fat mouths.

    You all jabber about that junk Winblows being God's gift to humanity,
    well let's see you all put your money, as it were, where your fat mouths
    are.

    The Pan newsreader does not distribute an M$ Winblows version and we need
    you all to compile one for us. The source code is here:

    https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pan/-/releases/v0.161

    There are unofficial Winblows versions provided but they are all
    junk in that they constantly crash as well as being way behind the
    current version.

    So put your mighty (sic) Microslop machines to work and build us a perfect Pan version with that superb (sic) Microslop software. Then post the result somewhere.

    C'mon, get moving. It shouldn't take y'all more than 20 minutes.

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! They're already crawling back into
    their fetid holes.

    I wish they'd stay there, but once their shame lessens they'll be back.


    Reword your entire post and ask reasonably and nicely and I'll look into building a new version of Pan for Windows.

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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 20 19:31:13 2025
    On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 13:22:06 -0500, DFS <[email protected]ca>
    wrote in <vmm48b$3b2am$[email protected]>:

    On 1/20/2025 7:29 AM, Farley Flud wrote:
    Attention all Microslop fat mouths.

    You all jabber about that junk Winblows being God's gift to humanity,
    well let's see you all put your money, as it were, where your fat
    mouths are.

    The Pan newsreader does not distribute an M$ Winblows version and we
    need you all to compile one for us. The source code is here:

    https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pan/-/releases/v0.161

    There are unofficial Winblows versions provided but they are all junk
    in that they constantly crash as well as being way behind the current
    version.

    So put your mighty (sic) Microslop machines to work and build us a
    perfect Pan version with that superb (sic) Microslop software. Then
    post the result somewhere.

    C'mon, get moving. It shouldn't take y'all more than 20 minutes.

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! They're already crawling back into
    their fetid holes.

    I wish they'd stay there, but once their shame lessens they'll be back.


    Reword your entire post and ask reasonably and nicely and I'll look into building a new version of Pan for Windows.

    He'll never do it. His schtick is "bully" -- but as you
    know, he sucks at it.

    Meanwhile, the civilized world understands that a _human_
    "alpha" is most successful when they foster cooperation
    and mutuality.

    Perhaps Feeb was raised by wolves?

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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to DFS on Mon Jan 20 20:48:11 2025
    On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 13:22:06 -0500, DFS wrote:

    On 1/20/2025 7:29 AM, Farley Flud wrote:
    Attention all Microslop fat mouths.

    You all jabber about that junk Winblows being God's gift to humanity,
    well let's see you all put your money, as it were, where your fat
    mouths are.

    The Pan newsreader does not distribute an M$ Winblows version and we
    need you all to compile one for us. The source code is here:

    https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pan/-/releases/v0.161

    There are unofficial Winblows versions provided but they are all junk
    in that they constantly crash as well as being way behind the current
    version.

    So put your mighty (sic) Microslop machines to work and build us a
    perfect Pan version with that superb (sic) Microslop software. Then
    post the result somewhere.

    C'mon, get moving. It shouldn't take y'all more than 20 minutes.

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! They're already crawling back into
    their fetid holes.

    I wish they'd stay there, but once their shame lessens they'll be back.


    Reword your entire post and ask reasonably and nicely and I'll look into building a new version of Pan for Windows.

    I have it running, built with Cygwin.

    Needed only one patch from the current git to build on Cygwin:

    $ diff -u pan/tasks/nntp.cc~ pan/tasks/nntp.cc
    --- pan/tasks/nntp.cc~ 2025-01-20 11:51:40.000000000 -0800
    +++ pan/tasks/nntp.cc 2025-01-20 12:21:48.046617200 -0800
    @@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
    *
    */

    +#define _GNU_SOURCE
    +
    #include "nntp.h"

    #include <config.h>

    _ _ _ _ _ _ _

    This is all beyond Feeb, of course, or he wouldn't have asked in
    the first place...

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  • From CrudeSausage@21:1/5 to Joel on Mon Jan 20 15:21:51 2025
    On 1/20/25 3:03 PM, Joel wrote:
    DFS <[email protected]ca> wrote:
    On 1/20/2025 7:29 AM, Lameass Loser Larry Pietraskiewicz wrote:

    build us a perfect Pan version

    Somebody hep me get a Windows GUI! You know I can't post witout a GUI
    Momma!


    Distro Pan hard to use. Forte Agent under Wine very nice.

    Pan is very simple, but also very clunky. It looks like a teenager's
    high school Visual Basic project.

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  • From DFS@21:1/5 to vallor on Mon Jan 20 16:37:03 2025
    On 1/20/2025 2:31 PM, vallor wrote:
    On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 13:22:06 -0500, DFS <[email protected]ca>

    Reword your entire post and ask reasonably and nicely and I'll look into
    building a new version of Pan for Windows.

    He'll never do it. His schtick is "bully" -- but as you
    know, he sucks at it.

    Bullying is his outlet for a failed professional and personal life, and
    being forced to take a Windows job.



    Meanwhile, the civilized world understands that a _human_
    "alpha" is most successful when they foster cooperation
    and mutuality.

    Braveheart couldn't have said it better!



    Perhaps Feeb was raised by wolves?

    And then finishing school with hyenas

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  • From DFS@21:1/5 to Lameass Larry on Mon Jan 20 16:36:35 2025
    On 1/20/2025 7:29 AM, Lameass Larry wrote:


    https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pan/-/releases/v0.161

    There are unofficial Winblows versions provided


    Those are the versions you've been using to post from your Windows job -
    for YEARS.

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  • From CrudeSausage@21:1/5 to RonB on Tue Jan 21 08:43:59 2025
    On 1/21/25 1:43 AM, RonB wrote:
    On 2025-01-20, CrudeSausage <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 1/20/25 3:03 PM, Joel wrote:
    DFS <[email protected]ca> wrote:
    On 1/20/2025 7:29 AM, Lameass Loser Larry Pietraskiewicz wrote:

    build us a perfect Pan version

    Somebody hep me get a Windows GUI! You know I can't post witout a GUI >>>> Momma!


    Distro Pan hard to use. Forte Agent under Wine very nice.

    Pan is very simple, but also very clunky. It looks like a teenager's
    high school Visual Basic project.

    Well, it's not slrn, but I thought it was pretty good when I ran it several years ago. It reminded a lot of Xnews, which is what I used way back in my Windows' days.

    Much like a Visual Basic project, it does the job. I'm not a fan of its
    filter system, but it is otherwise lean and useful.

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  • From CrudeSausage@21:1/5 to RonB on Wed Jan 22 08:38:50 2025
    On 1/22/25 2:05 AM, RonB wrote:
    On 2025-01-21, CrudeSausage <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 1/21/25 1:43 AM, RonB wrote:
    On 2025-01-20, CrudeSausage <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 1/20/25 3:03 PM, Joel wrote:
    DFS <[email protected]ca> wrote:
    On 1/20/2025 7:29 AM, Lameass Loser Larry Pietraskiewicz wrote:

    build us a perfect Pan version

    Somebody hep me get a Windows GUI! You know I can't post witout a GUI >>>>>> Momma!


    Distro Pan hard to use. Forte Agent under Wine very nice.

    Pan is very simple, but also very clunky. It looks like a teenager's
    high school Visual Basic project.

    Well, it's not slrn, but I thought it was pretty good when I ran it several >>> years ago. It reminded a lot of Xnews, which is what I used way back in my >>> Windows' days.

    Much like a Visual Basic project, it does the job. I'm not a fan of its
    filter system, but it is otherwise lean and useful.

    Pan's filter system is pretty much like slrn's — it's pretty powerful.

    Sure, but not user-friendly in the least. You can figure out how to
    configure it through a series of searches on the Internet, but most of
    what you would want to do can't be done from within the program. Much of
    it requires you to edit the configuration file and to know, before you
    start, what patterns to use to get things accomplished. At least in Thunderbird's case, it works without any confusion. It still has that
    bug that the filters won't work until you unsubscribe and resubscribe to
    a group, but otherwise it's perfect.

    --
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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to CrudeSausage on Wed Jan 22 18:36:43 2025
    On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 08:38:50 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:

    Sure, but not user-friendly in the least. You can figure out how to
    configure it through a series of searches on the Internet, but most of
    what you would want to do can't be done from within the program. Much of
    it requires you to edit the configuration file and to know, before you
    start, what patterns to use to get things accomplished. At least in Thunderbird's case, it works without any confusion. It still has that
    bug that the filters won't work until you unsubscribe and resubscribe to
    a group, but otherwise it's perfect.

    I find it very easy to click on a post, ignore the thread, or put the
    author in the bozo bin for a period of time. You can also set the cross
    post count for a group.

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  • From CrudeSausage@21:1/5 to rbowman on Wed Jan 22 15:00:58 2025
    On 1/22/25 1:36 PM, rbowman wrote:
    On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 08:38:50 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:

    Sure, but not user-friendly in the least. You can figure out how to
    configure it through a series of searches on the Internet, but most of
    what you would want to do can't be done from within the program. Much of
    it requires you to edit the configuration file and to know, before you
    start, what patterns to use to get things accomplished. At least in
    Thunderbird's case, it works without any confusion. It still has that
    bug that the filters won't work until you unsubscribe and resubscribe to
    a group, but otherwise it's perfect.

    I find it very easy to click on a post, ignore the thread, or put the
    author in the bozo bin for a period of time. You can also set the cross
    post count for a group.

    The problem is that you will always end up with people like Larry Pietraskiewicz who will change his name daily but follow an easy to
    filter pattern. Pan and slrn don't allow you to filter patterns as
    easily as Thunderbird/Betterbird does. It filters crossposts a lot more
    easily though. In this client, I have to write in the name of the other newsgroups people post from to get rid of them whereas in Pan, it's a
    simple setting.

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  • From Chris Ahlstrom@21:1/5 to rbowman on Thu Jan 23 07:55:44 2025
    rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

    On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 08:38:50 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:

    Sure, but not user-friendly in the least. You can figure out how to
    configure it through a series of searches on the Internet, but most of
    what you would want to do can't be done from within the program. Much of
    it requires you to edit the configuration file and to know, before you
    start, what patterns to use to get things accomplished. At least in
    Thunderbird's case, it works without any confusion. It still has that
    bug that the filters won't work until you unsubscribe and resubscribe to
    a group, but otherwise it's perfect.

    I find it very easy to click on a post, ignore the thread, or put the
    author in the bozo bin for a period of time. You can also set the cross
    post count for a group.

    Been using slrn forever. Won't change.

    --
    genlock, n.:
    Why he stays in the bottle.

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  • From CrudeSausage@21:1/5 to RonB on Thu Jan 23 08:48:11 2025
    On 1/23/25 2:22 AM, RonB wrote:
    On 2025-01-22, CrudeSausage <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 1/22/25 2:05 AM, RonB wrote:
    On 2025-01-21, CrudeSausage <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 1/21/25 1:43 AM, RonB wrote:
    On 2025-01-20, CrudeSausage <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 1/20/25 3:03 PM, Joel wrote:
    DFS <[email protected]ca> wrote:
    On 1/20/2025 7:29 AM, Lameass Loser Larry Pietraskiewicz wrote: >>>>>>>>
    build us a perfect Pan version

    Somebody hep me get a Windows GUI! You know I can't post witout a GUI >>>>>>>> Momma!


    Distro Pan hard to use. Forte Agent under Wine very nice.

    Pan is very simple, but also very clunky. It looks like a teenager's >>>>>> high school Visual Basic project.

    Well, it's not slrn, but I thought it was pretty good when I ran it several
    years ago. It reminded a lot of Xnews, which is what I used way back in my
    Windows' days.

    Much like a Visual Basic project, it does the job. I'm not a fan of its >>>> filter system, but it is otherwise lean and useful.

    Pan's filter system is pretty much like slrn's — it's pretty powerful.

    Sure, but not user-friendly in the least. You can figure out how to
    configure it through a series of searches on the Internet, but most of
    what you would want to do can't be done from within the program. Much of
    it requires you to edit the configuration file and to know, before you
    start, what patterns to use to get things accomplished. At least in
    Thunderbird's case, it works without any confusion. It still has that
    bug that the filters won't work until you unsubscribe and resubscribe to
    a group, but otherwise it's perfect.

    After looking up slrn vs Pan filters, I found out that (although the filters look a lot alike) there are two different "interpreters" at work. Slrn uses something called S-Lang while Pan uses something PCRE. Apparently simple filters will interchange, but the more complicated ones won't. Or something like that...

    https://news.software.readers.narkive.com/k3fYPwcP/pan-and-slrn-score-files-the-difference

    So I guess that's that. Although I found both Pan and slrn filters can be auto-generated (mostly) and what I couldn't figure out in slrn, could be solved an Internet search that provided the answer fairly quickly. I would have to know more about what filters you're creating in Thunderbird to know if the filter was easily reproducible in slrn.

    It doesn't matter since I have no interest in using a CLI tool to
    navigate through Usenet anyway. Additionally, it would reveal to the
    people I'm filtering _how_ I'm doing it, so they would easily circumvent
    those filters.



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