On 28/9/04 10:11 am, in article [email hidden],
Ian Scott said:Can someone please tell me why a lot of
people here tend to replace letters of the
alphabet with asterisks in such words as
"h*lm*ts" (helmets), "H*lfo***" (Halfords)
and so on.By doing this you are stopping my kill
filter from working. I have a kill-filter
on the word "helmets" as I don't want to
Then you won't see any replies to your post..
Shot yourself in the foot there by saying Helmets rather than h*lm*ts..
Oops.
...d
Quoted message said:read about them, but the replacement of some
letters by asterisks mean they get through
anyway! Is that the idea - to make sure people
don't filter out certain messages? If so,
what is the purpose of that? I just delete them
manually which takes a long time and is
inconvenient, but I still don't read the
message!If there *is* a sensible reason for doing this (which
I have failed to see), at least could you standardise
this practice so that helmets ALWAYS becomes
h*****s etc. so then I can add new filters accordingly...or am i missing something?