On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:52:03 -0400, Joe wrote:

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:26:37 +0700, wrote:

On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:23:05 -0400, Leon Fisk
wrote:

On 29 Sep 2009 06:00:30 GMT, "DoN. Nichols"
wrote:

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I believe that Agent will handle regular expressions. (I can't
test it, because I don't use a Windows box for newsreading at all.) I'm
not sure about Agent's implementation, but something like:

Newsgroups: .*,misc.survivalism
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I'm using a bit older version of Agent, but the last I knew
Agent can only filter news groups using "Subject:" and/or
"Author:". You can use more/others for filtering email
though.

What you proposed has been a wish for a long time,
especially the whole body of messages. There are several
newer versions of Agent available now, don't know if this
has been added yet or not.

Depending on what version of Agent you have it probably can filter on
more then just "Subject" and "Author". I believe the help files give
instructions on other items to filter and a google search will turn up
even more information.

For example, I have Agent 4.2 set to disregard any message sent to
more then two groups.

I do the same - if the other group is cncmachining (or whatever)
that's relevant, but if it's "survivalism" it's inevitably noise.
That's why I want to filter based on specific groups.

I also use 4.2, and it won't let me do that. Given the rather complex
and somewhat arcane options available in the set-up, it seems strange
that they left the filtering tool without that specific option.

Still, Agent suits me, and my brain still has a pretty good filtering
system. It's the only way I can survive in todays world.

Joe

I use the following killfile to kill cross posted messages in
rec.crafts.metalworking downloaded by Agent 4.2.. You must run the
apply filters under "Tools" after messages are downloaded, I would
love the option of killing all messages that mention Democrat or
Republican in the message body.

Does anybody know of a newsgroup reader that does this?

newsgroups: ({\,.+\,.+\,.+\,} and rec.crafts.metalworking)