What is it? Set 415

[Rich Grise]

Thanks, Rich

[DoN. Nichols]

Marking as read *is* the means of deleting an article from your view. Truly deleting means removing it from the server (and theoretically all servers) so *nobody* could see or read the article. And that ability is restricted to two individuals per article:

1) The actual author of that article. 2) The news administrator of the news server from which it was originally posted. (To give him the power to cancel spam floods by a user on his system.)

Granted -- there are ways to do it anyway, but they require more knowledge of how news servers work.

That may be -- especially since the link is to blogspot, which is frequently a host to spamed sites in my experience. And the fact that it is cross-posted adds to the likelihood that it will be (mis)-identified as spam.

Perhaps someone needs to talk to the news admin at eternal-september to allow an exception to be made from this. I know that I had to make an exception in my killfiling to keep it from being marked as already read by my newsreader.

Both of you seem to be using eternal-september as your news server, perhaps it is indeed the server.

Looking at the images, I've decided that the release is for a ratchet instead of to allow the handle to be removed.

Good Luck, DoN.

[DoN. Nichols]

Adding the paragraph or two will probably make it look even

*more* like spam to the filters. :-) Even if you pick a different two paragraphs with each posting. I see *far* too much spam like that in my e-mail.

Unfortunately, changing the subject line will likely defeat my special filtering to undo the killfile getting rid of cross-posted articles -- which are otherwise spam, trolling, or political arguments.

Looking at what I have, these were the ones to make sure that I saw them:

====================================================================== [rec.crafts.metalworking] Score: 150 Subject: What is it\? Set.*

[rec.crafts.metalworking] Score: 400 Subject: What is it\? C.* [rec.crafts.metalworking] Score: 600 From: "Rob H\." ======================================================================

And only one of those works with the current situation, so I have added the following:

====================================================================== [rec.crafts.metalworking] Score: 600 From: "Rob H\." ======================================================================

which may get me past it.

Good Luck, DoN.

[Lobby Dosser]

It's looking like the server is the culprit.