Found: an RSS reader with a killfile.
Although Joey has a point, I do think that blogging is different from mailing. I mean, how could I cross-reference him like this? It's easier to read just one part of a discussion through a blog than it is to read part of a mailinglist.
Anyway
I received some feedback on one of my previous posts (all through comments on my blog, suggesting that my home-brewn comments system is up to snuff); two of the items pointed me towards liferea, which I promptly tried out. Quickly found that it supports almost1 everything that blam! supports, plus much, much, much more—I especially like what its default CSS does; it looks so much more pleasing to the eye than blam. And as an additional bonus, it's written in a compiled language, rather than an interpreted one—wahey for startup time. Now I haven't looked at the killfile possibilities yet, but even if they turn out to be worse than what I expect, I still ain't going back.
1the only thing I couldn't find how to do in liferea is how to order items in chronological, rather than counter-chronological, order, as I have it configured in blam. But that's just a minor cosmetical issue, in no way a reason to stick with blam...
Update: Okay, so turns out I can do this after all—just need to click on the list header to change the ordering. As is the case for every user interface, except for that of blam. Another reason not to use that thing anymore...
Hi Yoe, You can put entries in chronological order simply by clicking the "Date" headline button at the top of that column.
killfile... Let me think.
There isn\'t anything internal to Liferea that would make it as easy as editing a text file, so you would have to write a custom filter (maybe in xslt or perl?). Liferea supports piping your feed through an external program before parsing it (and I think that we merged the xslt filter patch too), so it is very possible to do what you want. The next thing is to decide how you want to select the items you want to trash... probably the author tag would be the best to use. The only downside of this approach is that it is very dependant on the feed\'s format.