Posted by Blinky the Shark on 10/01/81 11:45

Neredbojias wrote:

> To further the education of mankind, "Beauregard T. Shagnasty"
> <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> vouchsafed:
>
>> Neredbojias wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> Easy with 40tude Dialog. No penalties, either.
>>
>> !delete xref "alt.2600"
>> !delete xref "alt.usenet.kooks"
>> !delete xref "alt.fan.art-bell"
>> !delete xref "alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk"
>>
>> I don't see any of those posts.
>
> I just started using Xnews and I want to give it a fair chance before
> trying something else, although others have recommended 40tude to me as

Like Xnews, it's popular in news.software.readers. But while it seems to
be pretty good, I don't think it's as good as Xnews.

Especially the Pro version with the spell checker <g>:

http://blinkynet.net/comp/xnewsgoldsc.html [1]

> well. There's much about Xnews I like, a few things I don't, but I
> still have stuff to learn. Thanks for the tip.

You might even find that the learning part may resolve some of the
don't-like parts. It happens. :)

[1] Inside joke I made up for news.software.readers :)


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