Killfiles redux

[David Wallace]

If your newsreader handles regular expressions (regex) in its killfile
setup, set "if "newsgroup" contains" to:

([^,]+,){2,}

That will kill off any articles crossposted to 3 groups or more. Then
it's just a case of picking off the remaining couple of lunatics and
life is back to normal. I just checked the post nunbers for the past
couple of days: near 800, of which over 600 were crossposted garbage.

Dave.

[Vaughn]

"David Wallace" > wrote in message
...
> If your newsreader handles regular expressions (regex) in its killfile
> setup, set "if "newsgroup" contains" to:
>
> ([^,]+,){2,}
>
> That will kill off any articles crossposted to 3 groups or more.

Am I correct in my assumption that this trick will not work in Outlook
Express?

Vaughn

[Cub Driver]

On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 00:25:25 GMT, "Vaughn"
> wrote:

> Am I correct in my assumption that this trick will not work in Outlook
>Express?

Doesn't seem to work in Agent, either. All I see for choices are
Author and Subject.

all the best -- Dan Ford
email: (put Cubdriver in subject line)

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[tscottme]

David Wallace > wrote in message
...
> If your newsreader handles regular expressions (regex) in its killfile
> setup, set "if "newsgroup" contains" to:
>
> ([^,]+,){2,}
>
> That will kill off any articles crossposted to 3 groups or more. Then
> it's just a case of picking off the remaining couple of lunatics and
> life is back to normal. I just checked the post nunbers for the past
> couple of days: near 800, of which over 600 were crossposted garbage.
>
> Dave.

Thanks for the tip. I just killfile every screen name that cross posts.
That clears out the trolls and the idiots that don't remove NGs before
they reply.

--

Scott
--------
"To reprise an old joke from the Cold War, if Democrats aren't on
al-Qaida's payroll, they're being gypped." Ann Coulter

[Tarver Engineering]

"tscottme" > wrote in message
...
> David Wallace > wrote in message
> ...
> > If your newsreader handles regular expressions (regex) in its killfile
> > setup, set "if "newsgroup" contains" to:
> >
> > ([^,]+,){2,}
> >
> > That will kill off any articles crossposted to 3 groups or more. Then
> > it's just a case of picking off the remaining couple of lunatics and
> > life is back to normal. I just checked the post nunbers for the past
> > couple of days: near 800, of which over 600 were crossposted garbage.
> >
> > Dave.
>
> Thanks for the tip. I just killfile every screen name that cross posts.
> That clears out the trolls and the idiots that don't remove NGs before
> they reply.

That should simulate posting to notepad pretty quick.

[Alan Minyard]

On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 05:44:45 -0400, Cub Driver > wrote:

>On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 00:25:25 GMT, "Vaughn"
> wrote:
>
>> Am I correct in my assumption that this trick will not work in Outlook
>>Express?
>
>Doesn't seem to work in Agent, either. All I see for choices are
>Author and Subject.
>
>all the best -- Dan Ford

I spent an hour trying to get it to work in Agent, no joy :-(

Al Minyard

[Marc Reeve]

tscottme > wrote:
> David Wallace > wrote in message
> ...
> > If your newsreader handles regular expressions (regex) in its killfile
> > setup, set "if "newsgroup" contains" to:
> >
> > ([^,]+,){2,}
> >
> > That will kill off any articles crossposted to 3 groups or more. Then
> > it's just a case of picking off the remaining couple of lunatics and
> > life is back to normal. I just checked the post nunbers for the past
> > couple of days: near 800, of which over 600 were crossposted garbage.
> >
> > Dave.
>
> Thanks for the tip. I just killfile every screen name that cross posts.
> That clears out the trolls and the idiots that don't remove NGs before
> they reply.
>
It's a marvelous thing. Dropped from ~500 posts the last time I
attempted to download news, to around 30.

-Marc
--
Marc Reeve
actual email address after removal of 4s & spaces is
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[David Wallace]

> >> Am I correct in my assumption that this trick will not work in Outlook
> >>Express?
> >
> >Doesn't seem to work in Agent, either. All I see for choices are
> >Author and Subject.
>
> I spent an hour trying to get it to work in Agent, no joy :-(

Oops. Sorry guys. I don't use a PC and it didn't occur to me that a
basic selector like a newsgroup name wouldn't be available in your
reader's killfile setup. On the bright side, it means you'll never have
to learn how to do regex... (I'd drop the Agent people a line and ask
them to drop it in their next release. It's not exactly difficult to
implement.)

Dave.

[Ed Rasimus]

On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 15:17:49 -0500, Alan Minyard
> wrote:

>>Doesn't seem to work in Agent, either. All I see for choices are
>>Author and Subject.
>>
>>all the best -- Dan Ford
>
>I spent an hour trying to get it to work in Agent, no joy :-(
>
>Al Minyard

Having never done it, but being an avid user of Agent, I did what few
of us seldom think of....I looked in "Help".

It's explained there, but it will take a bit of geekery to understand
the syntax of the expressions. Start by going to the Window menu and
choosing Usenet filters. Then select "new filter" and behold, you'll
get the chance to build your own custom filters, not limited to author
or subject kill-filing.


Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
Smithsonian Institution Press
ISBN #1-58834-103-8

[Michael Wise]

In article >,
"Tarver Engineering" > wrote:

> > > If your newsreader handles regular expressions (regex) in its killfile
> > > setup, set "if "newsgroup" contains" to:
> > >
> > > ([^,]+,){2,}
> > >
> > > That will kill off any articles crossposted to 3 groups or more. Then
> > > it's just a case of picking off the remaining couple of lunatics and
> > > life is back to normal. I just checked the post nunbers for the past
> > > couple of days: near 800, of which over 600 were crossposted garbage.
> > >
> > > Dave.
> >
> > Thanks for the tip. I just killfile every screen name that cross posts.
> > That clears out the trolls and the idiots that don't remove NGs before
> > they reply.
>
> That should simulate posting to notepad pretty quick.


Not if the filter is applied only to the rec.aviation.military.*
hierarchy.



--Mike