"Dennis M. O'Connor" wrote in
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NewsProxy aka nfilter does that. Here's how it works:

NewsProxy downloads just a subset of the information in the
headers of all the posts.

It applies the filters you tell it to apply.

Any post that gets caught by a "drop" rule, doesn't get downloaded,
and it's headers do not even get to your newsreader. Nor do dropped
posts consume any bandwidth other than the header-subset download.

Undropped posts get downloaded, possibly modified if you told
it to do so, and displayed.

The Internet is so full of garbage these days that I run
NewsProxy (for USENET), SpamAssasin Proxy (for mail)
and Webwasher (for pop-ups, ads and so on). Good thing
I have a realtively-fast P4 and a DSL line.

So, is Newsproxy sort of like a plug-in that works in conjuntcion with
xNews or another newsreader? I use xNews also and don't quite have a handle
on filtering yet.

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Michael Burton
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