On 18/10/2019 12:51, Martin Brown wrote:
On 18/10/2019 12:00, John Rumm wrote:
On 16/10/2019 19:43, Andy Burns wrote:
Martin Brown wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

I suppose blocking on "uk.legal," will catch some of them, without
blocking the moderated group.

You also need ", uk.legal" to handle both sequences.

I deliberately only suggested trailing comma rather than leading
comma as well because that would block uk.legal.moderated again

Newsgroups contains ", " will kill every cross posting.

which isn't what I want, just groups that the trolls xpost to.

In some respects you are better off going for a default "kill all"
approach, and then whitelisting the ones you are actually interested
in. Otherwise the trolls can just add a new random group from time to
time to pop back into the feed.

So a pair of filters, one that matches any of the groups you want, and
stops filter execution, followed by a separate "kill all cross posts
filter" will do that since it won't run on any message that matched
the whitelist one.

Have you figured out or found a way to do wild card or regex matching in
Thunderbird. I tried a couple of add-ins but they never worked for me.

Regex, no (although to be fair, I have not actually tried since I can
usually get the result I need with the conventional filters and a bit of
lateral thought.

Wildcard matching you already have partially, since there is typically
an option to match on text with criteria like "begins with", "contains",
and "ends with".

(you can also get more combinatorial logic power if you are prepared to
craft the filter rules files yourself rather using just the GUI)



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Cheers,

John.

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