According to cavelamb himself :
DoN. Nichols wrote:
According to cavelamb himself :
I'm going through the current topics to hopefully suggest a way to tag
valid RCM traffic.
Add RCM: on the beginning of the title line - BEFORE the obligatory OT?
*Don't* use a colon. Outlook Express certainly converts every
two letter group followed by a ':' at the start of a "Subject: " header
to " " (It thinks that it may be an equivalent of " " in some
other language.) I don't know for sure what it does with three letter
groups, but try something else to make it stand out -- enclosing it in
square brackets "[]" is probably a pretty good one -- and do the same
with "OT" when you need to add it, so OE won't turn it off for you.
I've set up my killfile (using trn as a newsreader) to reject
anything with "sci.crypt" in the headers, since the vast majority of
this is an attack on that newsgroup, and every one of these has that
newsgroup name in the cross-posting list in the "Newsgroups: " header.
It takes a while for the newsreader to process it all, but it does clean
things up nicely. It is best to move the search for "sci.crypt" to the
beginning of the killfile, so it can clean up the most before your other
killfile entries have to wade through it.
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Ok Don, Copy that about the colon useage in IE.
I use netscape, so what do I know...
I don't (and can't) use OE, but I've seen the effect where
someone started a thread marked as "OT:", and I don't see any of it
until I hit the first followup by an OE user, whereupon the thread map
shows a bunch of "already read" articles preceding the one which I saw.
If [RCM] can work mo betta I'm all for it.
It is more likely to keep going once you start it, at least.
Nice youe reader can clean up YOUR feed, but we need to find something
that will work for everybody or you'll ne talking to yourself. 
The real trick is how many people's newsreaders have killfiles
which can look at the headers -- and in particular at the "Newsgroups: "
headers. For everyone who can (and who learns to do it), the junk
simply goes away -- as I don't see any *valid* cross-posting between
sci.crypt and rec.crafts.metalworking, so everything which gets killed
is good riddance.
I know that the killfile in some of the newsreaders is quite
good, while others are pretty useless.
FWIW, I timed the killfile this evening. 8 minutes and 51
seconds to clean up rec.crafts.metalworking from the cross-posted
garbage. The people in sci.crypt have a lot more problems, because they
are getting cross-posted garbage from a lot of different newsgroups, so
they could start out by killfiling anything from
rec.crafts.metalworking, then soc.religion.quaker (or whatever the
correct name is), then others as they identify them.
Of course, newsguy seems to be doing a good job of killing most
of the garbage. I was told that rec.crafts.metalworking had 25??
articles in it, but the killfile only had to deal with about six
hundred. I don't know whether that is newsguy's work or whether there
is a good cancelbot working to help clean it up. Of course, that
cancelbot does no good for any news server which ignores cancels (as
many do, thanks to the abuse of them which has happened over time).
Good Luck,
DoN.
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