OT. Blocking the Display of certain Profiles in Google Groups

Hi all, I haven't been active for some time (I felt a bit unwelcome
after making some comments about US govt. and WMD's etc. and getting
canned for it) but I have still been trawling the posts for
interesting discussion.

In an effort to avoid conflict with others, and also to make
conversations easier to follow, is there a way of blocking the display
of a certain person/persons in Google groups? I have read in some of
the posts, of people having done this, and I have not been able to find
out how to do this.

PS. I hope no one is overly offended by what this implies, but I'm not
really interested in trawling through rants, and have noticed over the
last few months that good conversations seem to have dwindled. It
seems to me that there are many others that probably feel similar to
this.

Regards Dominic.

 

It would be nice if Google Groups just automatically filtered JB and
Cliff. No such luck. Google Groups beta has no plonl list as yet that
I am aware of.

I also use Google Groups (mostly so I don't have to maintain & sync
newsgroups on multiple computers). I like it well enough for a free
service. Some seem to have a twisted prejudice against those who use
Google Groups to post to Usenet. Some say they are set up to
automatically screen all Google Groups posts. No accounting for some
folks, I guess.

 

There is, sort of.

If you use Firefox for your browsing, a kind individual named Damian
Penney has written a Greasemonkey (a Firefox extension) script to
killfile individuals.

You can learn more at

http://www.penney.org/ggkiller.html

It works pretty well. It's definitely not nFilter, but it's better
than nothing. And yes, Jon and Cliff were my first two selection. It
works better if you don't use the titles only view in Google Groups.
If you use titles only it will display entries made by those killfiled.

Chris