From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!bcw Newsgroups: net.news Title: Re: the Zinfandel Syndrome Article-I.D.: duke.2876 Posted: Mon Jan 3 22:00:54 1983 Received: Tue Jan 4 03:53:11 1983 From: Bruce C. Wright @ Duke University Re: The Zinfandel Syndrome (sounds like some cheap SF movie!) This sounds like a good opportunity to suggest something which occurred to me some time ago: it would help eliminate a lot of trash if I could, in addition to blacklisting certain newsgroups I don't want to read, if I could blacklist certain individuals/sites whose submissions I don't want to read. I know this sounds like guilt-by-association, but one has to defend oneself somehow, and if there is no other appropriate mechanism ... well, I may be forced to simply desubscribe to essentially ALL the newsgroups since the proportion of useful information has dropped to just about 0. Please direct any flames to /dev/null, as that is where any hate mail on this subject will be dropped anyway ... Bruce C. Wright @ Duke University