Re: How do I use GNAT.Directory_Operations.Iteration?

[Noel Duffy <hobcraft-usenet@yahooxtra.co.nz>]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:40:39 -0700, Adam Beneschan wrote:

> Asking a group for advice, and then shutting out a certain subset
> of that group who may provide good advice, seems like poor
> etiquette, unfriendly, something like that, I dunno...

Lots of people feel compelled to do this because of the enormous
volume of spam that originates from Google Groups. Google have ignored
the problem for years and do not seem to care about Usenet at all. If
your ISP, like most in NZ, does not do NNTP any more, there are lots
of free Usenet servers that you can use, so there is no need to read
or post through Google Groups unless you are feeling especially
masochistic. I am using eternal-september.org who are pretty good at
filtering out the vast majority of the crap so the only filtering I do
is for posts cross-posted to two or more groups.

Of course, as with any filtering, there is a risk that you will get
false positives, and reading comp.lang.ada while filtering out the
posts of Ludovic is a doozy of a false positive!