On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 19:03:28 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 12:56:55 -0500, Pete Keillor
wrote:

On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 12:51:54 -0400, Joe Gwinn
wrote:

There was a thread some time ago on ways to kill postings with too many
cross-posts. Some of these methods involved regular expressions, most
likely counting commas in the newsgroups header. Can anyone provide a
pointer to the thread, or related threads?

Thanks,

Joe Gwinn

You can set that in Agent 6.0 in folder properties. Today, I've been
using the Message-ID field for the new flock of bozos. When I see a
message id containing "theremailer" or "dont-email.me", it's a pretty
good bet for the bin.

How are you doing that, Pete? I only see a Message-ID field in
filtering emails, not Usenet posts.

H key to show the headers, then make a new filter with the message id
in the filter expression like below.

Message-ID: {googlegroups\.com}

The "\" is needed in front of the "." in the regular expression
language so that it isn't interpreted as a wildcard.

Pete Keillor