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Re: hatter crowd

Posted by Neredbojias on 11/24/37 11:45

To further the education of mankind, Blinky the Shark
<no.spam@box.invalid> vouchsafed:

>> Do you happen to know if Xnews can filter a post containing a certain
>> NG in the "Newsgroups" header? If, for example, I could filter
>> anything with "alt.2600" in it even if it contained other NGs?
>
> Yes, but it's expensive; i.e., time consuming, because that header is
> not in the server's XOVER database and after Xnews polls new posts
> there it has to then repoll the server with reference to XHDR to get
> Newsgroups headers.
>
> If you still want to do that, your syntax is:
>
> Newsgroups: alt.2600
>
> I don't think you have to escape that period, but if it doesn't work
> that way use: alt\.2600
>
> I trust you know how to set up the rest of the rule. If not, read the
> scoring text file in your Xnews directory or get back to me here.
>
> What kills those posts for me is this line:
>
> Xref: .*:.*:.*:.*:.*
>
> That bins anything posted to more than three groups.
>
> I don't *think* that's expensive scoring.
>
> The best place for Xnews help (and it's full of scoring wizards; note
> that Xnews allows regex in rules) is its de facto (as noted in the
> manual) support group, news.software.readers. It's a fine group,
> gurus live there, it's the first group I do every time I make a news
> run.) In fact, it's good for most any popular client except IE.

Okay, thanks for the fine, comprehensive reply. I'll probably try the
group thing first (-I know it's in the gui per your later post) and see how
it goes. I'm just getting sick and tired of wading around assholes like
dave hillstrom and his froop-loop friends whose idea of fun is making a
culture out of assininity.

--
Neredbojias
Infinity has its limits.

 

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