On 2004-12-18, Dave W. > wrote:

> You are supposed to be able to get rid of crossposts with something like:
> Kill if Xref contains "[^ ]+,[^ ]+,[^ ]+"
> Whatever that means. In any case, it doesn't work for me.

Try Kill if Xref contains ":*.*:"

Since crossposts require an extra colon between other newsgroups, this
might work.

> I have, though, apparently wiped out a slew of garbage from rfc with:
> Kill if Xref contains sci.med.cardiology
>
> All the Chung garbage is gone.

Yep. That's because he always includes that one group. See if just the word
cardiology works. It does on mine.

nb

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:17:15 -0600, Damsel in dis Dress
> wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:58:01 GMT, "me" > wrote:
>
> >You're sweet, notbob.. thank you. And if you can't find anything, don't
> >worry about it.. I've survived so far by just killfiling the username of the
> >person doing it, and was hoping I could do it another way, so I could see
> >their 'sane' posts.. oh well! lol
> >lucy
>
> Hi, Lucy!
>
> I killfile individuals who NEVER make sane posts by their posting name.
> There are others who post to point out that someone is being a stinker, but
> otherwise make positive contributions to the group. I look at the thread
> they just started, and filter that entire thread. There are also a number
> of key words, as kilikini suggested, that will be automatically
> disregarded. Anything pertaining to politics, race, religion, 2 pound
> diets, you get the picture.
>
> I see amazingly few of the crap posts. And I get fewer than half of the
> posts made to the group by careful filtering, saving me lots of time for
> painting my toenails and eating bonbons.
>
My server must be better than I thought. I don't notice
that stuff here and I don't filter either. The only poster
I'd filter if I could is Dr. C and he's easy enough to
ignore.

sf
Practice safe eating - always use condiments

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:17:15 -0600, Damsel in dis Dress
> wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:58:01 GMT, "me" > wrote:
>
> >You're sweet, notbob.. thank you. And if you can't find anything, don't
> >worry about it.. I've survived so far by just killfiling the username of the
> >person doing it, and was hoping I could do it another way, so I could see
> >their 'sane' posts.. oh well! lol
> >lucy
>
> Hi, Lucy!
>
> I killfile individuals who NEVER make sane posts by their posting name.
> There are others who post to point out that someone is being a stinker, but
> otherwise make positive contributions to the group. I look at the thread
> they just started, and filter that entire thread. There are also a number
> of key words, as kilikini suggested, that will be automatically
> disregarded. Anything pertaining to politics, race, religion, 2 pound
> diets, you get the picture.
>
> I see amazingly few of the crap posts. And I get fewer than half of the
> posts made to the group by careful filtering, saving me lots of time for
> painting my toenails and eating bonbons.
>
My server must be better than I thought. I don't notice
that stuff here and I don't filter either. The only poster
I'd filter if I could is Dr. C and he's easy enough to
ignore.

sf
Practice safe eating - always use condiments

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 19:56:17 -0600, "Dave W."
> wrote:

> All the Chung garbage is gone. The only loss I can see is that Pastorio
> apparently gets killed a bit .... his posts are often way cool. But the
> crossposts were a pain in the posterior and I'll do without some
> Pastorio to avoid the tedious religious threads.

Are you saying your filter has affected Pastorio in threads
that are not Chung related???

sf
Practice safe eating - always use condiments

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 19:56:17 -0600, "Dave W."
> wrote:

> All the Chung garbage is gone. The only loss I can see is that Pastorio
> apparently gets killed a bit .... his posts are often way cool. But the
> crossposts were a pain in the posterior and I'll do without some
> Pastorio to avoid the tedious religious threads.

Are you saying your filter has affected Pastorio in threads
that are not Chung related???

sf
Practice safe eating - always use condiments

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 01:34:32 GMT, blake murphy
> wrote:

> i use agent, but i can't see how to filter crossposts.

Post a query to alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent

sf
Practice safe eating - always use condiments

In article >,
sf > wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 19:56:17 -0600, "Dave W."
> > wrote:
>
> > All the Chung garbage is gone. The only loss I can see is that Pastorio
> > apparently gets killed a bit .... his posts are often way cool. But the
> > crossposts were a pain in the posterior and I'll do without some
> > Pastorio to avoid the tedious religious threads.
>
> Are you saying your filter has affected Pastorio in threads
> that are not Chung related???
>
> sf
> Practice safe eating - always use condiments

The filter kills anything posted to the cardiology group ... a lot of
Pastorio's posts are cross posted to the cardiology group. Some are
about Chung, some are not.

Regards,
Dave W.

--
Living in the Ozarks
For email, edu will do.

In article >,
sf > wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 19:56:17 -0600, "Dave W."
> > wrote:
>
> > All the Chung garbage is gone. The only loss I can see is that Pastorio
> > apparently gets killed a bit .... his posts are often way cool. But the
> > crossposts were a pain in the posterior and I'll do without some
> > Pastorio to avoid the tedious religious threads.
>
> Are you saying your filter has affected Pastorio in threads
> that are not Chung related???
>
> sf
> Practice safe eating - always use condiments

The filter kills anything posted to the cardiology group ... a lot of
Pastorio's posts are cross posted to the cardiology group. Some are
about Chung, some are not.

Regards,
Dave W.

--
Living in the Ozarks
For email, edu will do.

In article <9iSwd.779138$8_6.303515@attbi_s04>,
notbob > wrote:

> On 2004-12-18, Dave W. > wrote:
>
> > You are supposed to be able to get rid of crossposts with something like:
> > Kill if Xref contains "[^ ]+,[^ ]+,[^ ]+"
> > Whatever that means. In any case, it doesn't work for me.
>
> Try Kill if Xref contains ":*.*:"
>
> Since crossposts require an extra colon between other newsgroups, this
> might work.
>
Thanks for the hint ... I'll give it a try.

> > I have, though, apparently wiped out a slew of garbage from rfc with:
> > Kill if Xref contains sci.med.cardiology
> >
> > All the Chung garbage is gone.
>
> Yep. That's because he always includes that one group. See if just the word
> cardiology works. It does on mine.
>
I tried cardiology and it appeared not to do the job. When I gave the
full group name the filter snagged them all. Don't know what to make of
that. I'll try it again later and see what happens.

Regards,
Dave W.

--
Living in the Ozarks
For email, edu will do.

In article <9iSwd.779138$8_6.303515@attbi_s04>,
notbob > wrote:

> On 2004-12-18, Dave W. > wrote:
>
> > You are supposed to be able to get rid of crossposts with something like:
> > Kill if Xref contains "[^ ]+,[^ ]+,[^ ]+"
> > Whatever that means. In any case, it doesn't work for me.
>
> Try Kill if Xref contains ":*.*:"
>
> Since crossposts require an extra colon between other newsgroups, this
> might work.
>
Thanks for the hint ... I'll give it a try.

> > I have, though, apparently wiped out a slew of garbage from rfc with:
> > Kill if Xref contains sci.med.cardiology
> >
> > All the Chung garbage is gone.
>
> Yep. That's because he always includes that one group. See if just the word
> cardiology works. It does on mine.
>
I tried cardiology and it appeared not to do the job. When I gave the
full group name the filter snagged them all. Don't know what to make of
that. I'll try it again later and see what happens.

Regards,
Dave W.

--
Living in the Ozarks
For email, edu will do.

blake murphy > wrote in
:

> i use agent, but i can't see how to filter crossposts.

In Xnews, I can filter crossposts two ways:

1. I can set the thing to killfile any posting with a particular
newsgroup in its list of newsgroups, or

2. I can limit the number of newgroups posted to that I will accept,
i.e. 3, 2, or 1. This is indiscriminate but very effective to killfile
trolls like we had a while back. As they insisted on crossposting to
five newsgroups, I could eliminate 99% of their traffic by setting my
margin at 3. You can also set that at 1 so you will killfile any post
that was sent to two or more newsgroups.

--

"It is easier for a rich man to enter heaven seated
comfortably on the back of a camel, than it is for
a poor man to pass through the eye of a needle."

Supply Side Jesus

blake murphy > wrote in
:

> i use agent, but i can't see how to filter crossposts.

In Xnews, I can filter crossposts two ways:

1. I can set the thing to killfile any posting with a particular
newsgroup in its list of newsgroups, or

2. I can limit the number of newgroups posted to that I will accept,
i.e. 3, 2, or 1. This is indiscriminate but very effective to killfile
trolls like we had a while back. As they insisted on crossposting to
five newsgroups, I could eliminate 99% of their traffic by setting my
margin at 3. You can also set that at 1 so you will killfile any post
that was sent to two or more newsgroups.

--

"It is easier for a rich man to enter heaven seated
comfortably on the back of a camel, than it is for
a poor man to pass through the eye of a needle."

Supply Side Jesus

blake murphy > wrote in
:

> i use agent, but i can't see how to filter crossposts.

In Xnews, I can filter crossposts two ways:

1. I can set the thing to killfile any posting with a particular
newsgroup in its list of newsgroups, or

2. I can limit the number of newgroups posted to that I will accept,
i.e. 3, 2, or 1. This is indiscriminate but very effective to killfile
trolls like we had a while back. As they insisted on crossposting to
five newsgroups, I could eliminate 99% of their traffic by setting my
margin at 3. You can also set that at 1 so you will killfile any post
that was sent to two or more newsgroups.

--

"It is easier for a rich man to enter heaven seated
comfortably on the back of a camel, than it is for
a poor man to pass through the eye of a needle."

Supply Side Jesus

On 2004-12-18, Michel Boucher > wrote:

> 2. I can limit the number of newgroups posted to that I will accept,
> i.e. 3, 2, or 1. This is indiscriminate but very effective to killfile
> trolls like we had a while back. As they insisted on crossposting to
> five newsgroups, I could eliminate 99% of their traffic by setting my
> margin at 3. You can also set that at 1 so you will killfile any post
> that was sent to two or more newsgroups.

This is no doubt why Xnews has become just about the most popular 3rd party
Windows newsreader in the last couple years.

nb

notbob > wrote in
news:LN0xd.593073$D%.57359@attbi_s51:

> On 2004-12-18, Michel Boucher > wrote:
>
>> 2. I can limit the number of newgroups posted to that I will
>> accept, i.e. 3, 2, or 1. This is indiscriminate but very
>> effective to killfile trolls like we had a while back. As they
>> insisted on crossposting to five newsgroups, I could eliminate
>> 99% of their traffic by setting my margin at 3. You can also set
>> that at 1 so you will killfile any post that was sent to two or
>> more newsgroups.
>
> This is no doubt why Xnews has become just about the most popular
> 3rd party Windows newsreader in the last couple years.

No doubt.

--

[...] remember when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down 'ere on Earth!

Monty Python's Universe Song

notbob > wrote in
news:LN0xd.593073$D%.57359@attbi_s51:

> On 2004-12-18, Michel Boucher > wrote:
>
>> 2. I can limit the number of newgroups posted to that I will
>> accept, i.e. 3, 2, or 1. This is indiscriminate but very
>> effective to killfile trolls like we had a while back. As they
>> insisted on crossposting to five newsgroups, I could eliminate
>> 99% of their traffic by setting my margin at 3. You can also set
>> that at 1 so you will killfile any post that was sent to two or
>> more newsgroups.
>
> This is no doubt why Xnews has become just about the most popular
> 3rd party Windows newsreader in the last couple years.

No doubt.

--

[...] remember when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down 'ere on Earth!

Monty Python's Universe Song

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 07:40:01 -0600, "Dave W."
> wrote:

> In article >,
> sf > wrote:
>
> >
> > Are you saying your filter has affected Pastorio in threads
> > that are not Chung related???
> >
> > sf
> > Practice safe eating - always use condiments
>
> The filter kills anything posted to the cardiology group ... a lot of
> Pastorio's posts are cross posted to the cardiology group. Some are
> about Chung, some are not.
>
I wonder why his nonChung posts are going there?

sf
Practice safe eating - always use condiments

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 07:40:01 -0600, "Dave W."
> wrote:

> In article >,
> sf > wrote:
>
> >
> > Are you saying your filter has affected Pastorio in threads
> > that are not Chung related???
> >
> > sf
> > Practice safe eating - always use condiments
>
> The filter kills anything posted to the cardiology group ... a lot of
> Pastorio's posts are cross posted to the cardiology group. Some are
> about Chung, some are not.
>
I wonder why his nonChung posts are going there?

sf
Practice safe eating - always use condiments

In article >,
sf > wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 07:40:01 -0600, "Dave W."
> > wrote:
>
<snip>
> >
> > The filter kills anything posted to the cardiology group ... a lot of
> > Pastorio's posts are cross posted to the cardiology group. Some are
> > about Chung, some are not.
> >
> I wonder why his nonChung posts are going there?
>
> sf
> Practice safe eating - always use condiments

I dunno. He certainly doesn't do it all the time. Bob Pastorio is still
has a (welcome) presence on my newsreader, so he's not sending
everything to the cardiology group.

I notice this morning that 27 posts have been snagged by my kill filter
(since yesterday afternoon). Unfortunately, I don't know of a way to
find out what posts the filter caught. I expect that some are cardiology
group posts, others are likely a particularly noxious and childish
political troll.

Regards,
Dave W.

--
Living in the Ozarks
For email, edu will do.

In article >,
sf > wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 07:40:01 -0600, "Dave W."
> > wrote:
>
<snip>
> >
> > The filter kills anything posted to the cardiology group ... a lot of
> > Pastorio's posts are cross posted to the cardiology group. Some are
> > about Chung, some are not.
> >
> I wonder why his nonChung posts are going there?
>
> sf
> Practice safe eating - always use condiments

I dunno. He certainly doesn't do it all the time. Bob Pastorio is still
has a (welcome) presence on my newsreader, so he's not sending
everything to the cardiology group.

I notice this morning that 27 posts have been snagged by my kill filter
(since yesterday afternoon). Unfortunately, I don't know of a way to
find out what posts the filter caught. I expect that some are cardiology
group posts, others are likely a particularly noxious and childish
political troll.

Regards,
Dave W.

--
Living in the Ozarks
For email, edu will do.