This article is from the Internet Personals: Advice for Straights FAQ, by Dean Esmay esmay@syndicomm.com with numerous contributions by others.
It is a feature in some news reading software to filter out
unwanted posts. You tell it not to show you articles containing
certain words or phrases or posted by certain people. It can be
helpful in some places, but until more people start using simple,
easily identifiable titles to their personal ads, this will remain a
mostly-useless feature for us.
 
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