I've watched filtering tips over the last couple of weeks for folks using various news readers (besides AOL's) and been bummed at not seeing AOL's options mentioned. I just went to AOL's newsgroups window, simply titled "Newsgroups". This is the place you go to select which groups you want to subscribe too. To Filter: Click on "Set Preferences" that calls up a heading called "Global Newsgroup Preferences" Click on tab for "Filtering" Under Select filter type: select "Subject Contains" Then under "Enter new filter:" enter the word you want to filter and click the "Add Filter" I entered all the words I wanted to filter individually, then finish by clicking the "Save" button. It works and is easy to go too and update.
Cleaner at last.
Steve