Does GREX have a filter so that I can screen responses and items
entered by particular users who seldom contribute meaningfully
and *really* get on my nerves?

If so, what is it and how do I use it?

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Yes, it's called "skip".  Here are instructions on how to use it,
adapted from the source file:
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 *  This program can be used as a PicoSpan pager to eliminate
 *  responses and items by twits.
 *  It requires the use of special rseps and iseps that put a "!user\n"
 *  before each response.  Then just use this program by putting the
 *  following lines into your .cfonce file:

define rsep "!%l\n----\n#%r %a (%l):"
define isep "!%l\nItem %i entered %d by %a (%l)\n %h"
define ishort "!%l\n %3i %h (%l)"
define pager "skip moron bozo etc"
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The program was written by Jon Zeeff.

If you normally use the "more" pager to pause output when the screen
fills, you can combine the effect of that and "skip" by doing

  define pager "skip moron bozo remmers | more"

I'd thought it was called "twit".

It was originally, but we renamed it "skip".

Yeah, I remember Skip.  He was a bozo extraordinare.

Thanks ever so much -- this will make GREX pleasant again!

Yeah.. knowing that people just skip your responses just because you
say something stupid once.

We'll all just be talking to ourselves - and maybe not even that.

I include only myself in my twit filter -- I already know what *I* said.

I would think you would want to reread it, for the deep pleasure it gives.

Actually, I reread it for the shallow pleasure it gives.

AWs evidenced by the fact that we got into our third year before I felt
the need for a filter -- it takes lots more than one or two stupid
remarks to really get on my nerves.

Thanks for asking about this, M.T. I wondered if such a program
were possible. I plan to use it. Having been online only about
three months, I guess my intolerance for *consistently* stupid
reremarks (>90%) is only about one-eighth that of yours.

Thanks, Remmers.

Yes.  This is one item that should *definitely* stay here.

Well, Jon Zeeff wrote the program, so he should get any thanks due.

There should be a "twit" or "skip" filter on selected chfns also
unless the system chooses to give up before starting.

After playing some more with this thing, I want to add some more information.
It appears that the significant part of the separators that are defined is
the    !%l\n   at the beginning - the filter apparently looks for these and
decides whether to skip according to the login name specified.  But you can
change what information shows in the rest of the headers.  (I happen to want
date & time information which was getting omitted; that's why I started
experimenting.)

One downside of these is that if one of the people on your list to skip enters
a response or an item, you'll still see a message like "1 new of 15 responses
total", followed immediately by the "Respond or pass?" prompt.  Pretty
obviously a filter can't make Picospan skip the prompt; and given that I
guess it shouldn't bother looking ahead enough to suppress the heading.
(It would be nice if this were a Picospan builtin.)

To revive this old topic, and using info from a coop session, wouldn't a
program like .yeswrtie sort of be a twit filter?
Erm, yeswrite that is.

Gosh, yes, it would, wouldn't it?  Damn, I wish I'd remembered
this, I could have cited past precedent in that Co-op discussion...

That would have been cool.  BTW whatever happened to the .yeswrite/.nowrite
debate?

It was determined that it would probably be a good thing to do,
if someone could program it.  So far, nobody has.

I believe that remmers said he would do it when he got around to it.

Remmers has partly gotten around to it. I've studied Jan's
"write" code and determined the kinds of modifications I
would make. Corresponded a bit with Jan about it. But the
implementation has been on the back burner for a while.
Given my level of busy-ness right now, I'm not sure when it
will come off. Mid to late January looks like a possibility.
If Jan or someone else is hot to do the project and can get
to it sooner, I would not be offended.

Many Thanks for the re-hash, gentlepersons.

Re 18, Rob, I think mention of this did come up in the .yeswrite/.nowrite
discussion in coop.  *Definitely* mail filtering did.

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