In article hYeMd.11460$mt.1237@fed1read03,
SteveB wrote:
"Dave Hinz" wrote in message
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On 2 Feb 2005 04:58:36 -0800, jim rozen wrote:
In article , Mike Henry says...
That works for "Cliff's" posts but doesn't help at all for the (usually)
many responses.
True if killfiling by poster. The cliff-moron deliberately
crossposts the OT crap so that folks in other ngs show up
here on rcm, when their newsreaders don't single-group reply.
Ah. Another tactic I use, is that if a post is crossposted to 3 or more
groups, I don't see it. Killfile rule is based on two or more , in the
newsgroups: line. I suppose it's _possible_ that a legitimate message
could be posted to 3 or more groups and be on-topic for all of them,
but I never saw one; just trolling. I'm willing to miss an occasional
theoretical post, to improve my S:N ratio.
Dave Hinz
How would I enter that in the field? Would I use the asterisk wild card
denotation?
Would it be using the semicolons? as ***;***;*** or *** ; *** ; ***
Just what would be the exact characters? That sounds like a great filter.
Assuming that OE (your apparent newsreader, based on the
headers) allows specifying a filtering parameter based on the contents
of the "Newsgroups: " header, you would look for commas. Look at the
format of the typical "Newsgroups: " header which is cross-posted, and
you will see that the newsgroups are separated by commas, and no
whitespace.
With unix wildcarding (regular expressions), the match string
would be:
Newsgroups: .*,.*,.*
to detect three or more newsgroups in the cross posting. In unix REs,
'.' stands for any character, and following it with '*' means any number
of characters (until you get to a match for the first non-wildcard
character, the ',').
For Windows, at a guess, it would be more like:
Newsgroups: *,*,*
assuming that the "Newsgroups: " word needs to be included in what is
being checked. But this could vary from newsreader to newsreader. In
some cases, there may be no provisions for scanning the "Newsgroups: "
header line, in which case, you are out of luck until you go to some
better newsreader. (And almost anything is more secure than OE as a
newsreader or e-mail client. :-)
Good Luck,
DoN.
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