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J. Clarke[_2_]

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On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:57:02 -0500, "Pete C."
wrote:

pyotr filipivich wrote:

on Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:46:51 +0000 (UTC) typed in
rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
Though I use lots of kill filters I cannot figure out how to filter
out cross posts in Agent. And the number of and subjects of posts from
other newsgroups is making it really hard to read rcm. So can anyone
tell me how to filter out crossposts using Agent?

Two things - ask at alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent, the
home of all things Agent related.

Secondly, I doubt you can filter on cross posts, at least not with
versions 1 through 3. (I've been using 3.3 for dog years - "Works for
me!") Agent does have an option to mark cross posts "read", but only
on the N+1 occurrence. (look under the "Folder" options for "cross
post management". Can be set in Default Properties, too) That is, if
RCM is your first group, any header downloaded there will be unread,
all the subsequent groups will have that same header marked as "read".
But it will not check to see if someone is cross posting to
alt.barney.die.die.die and rec.crafts.metalworking.

In other words, I doubt it can be done, "you'll just have to live with
it." Or filter out those you consider the worst cross-posters (as
opposed to cross-dressers).

Another option is a separate filter such as NewsProxy.
Since I'm running Agent 2.0/something I guess I'll either have to
upgrade or try NewsProxy.

Never tried NewsProxy, but Hamster, a similar product, has excellent
filtering. Only objection to Hamster is that the English documentation
is pretty poor (the German documentation may be excellent--I don't have
enough German to be able to tell).

http://www.elbiah.de/hamster/index.htm