"SMS" <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in message
news:47bda6af$0$36386$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...
> After a while you forget about the filters and don't think about why the
> S/N ratio improved so much, then you go back and look at the filter log,
> and wow!


I do most of my Usenet from my WinMo phone running the QMail client- it has
filters but their implemented awkwardly. First you download the messages,
then manually apply the filter which then goes through the posts and moves
all "matching" posts to the trash bin. There may be an easier/automatic
way, but while the program is in English, the author (and all documentation)
is Japanese!

Unless I'm slogging through days worth of noise, it's generally easier for
me to just delete them manually when I see obvious timewasters like "FAQ for
AT&T/Cingular..." or "iPhone gets Tetris" or whatever...