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Posted by Blinky the Shark on 11/18/78 11:45
Neredbojias wrote:
> 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
My presense in the group stats always goes up when there are threads on
news clients. They're kind of my thing the way webby/markuppy stuff is
everyone else's thing in here. As I've mentioned, I read that stuff here
to learn; I yak when stuff *I* know comes up. :)
> group thing first (-I know it's in the gui per your later post) and see
Yeah, it doesn't get much easier than that. And the swill posted here
always fits that filter.
> 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.
C'mon, you *know* you're only hurting yourself when you hold it in. ;)
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Blinky RLU 297263
Killing all posts from Google Groups
The Usenet Improvement Project: http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html
Coming Soon: Filtering rules specific to various real news clients
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