Agent kill filter help please
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? Thanks, Eric |
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Agent kill filter help please
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Agent kill filter help please
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says... 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 |
Agent kill filter help please
On 2011-08-31, wrote:
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? I don't know Agent specifically, but the usual trick is to count commas in the "Newsgroups: " header. One comma is two newsgroups, two commas is three an so forth. My newsreader allows scoring, so I can allocate say -10 points for one comma, another -10 points for two commas (separate test) and so on -- and for the desired cross-posts (e.g. the weekly puzzles which are posted to three newsgroups, I take the "From: " header and give something like +50 to override the total of the negatives from the commas. Hopefully, someone else who *uses* Agent can tell you how to do this. IIRC, I think that it needed a bit of trickery to add "Newsgroups: " to the headers on which you can filter. Good Luck, DoN. -- Remove oil spill source from e-mail Email: | Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564 (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- |
Agent kill filter help please
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:38:02 -0400, Usual suspect
wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:46:51 +0000 (UTC), wrote: 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? Thanks, Eric Agent 4, Select "Folder" Select "Default Properties" Enable "Cross post checking" enter 2 Select "Do not retrieve Header" The usenet becomes a much more peaceful and sane place. Try the following filter newsgroups: ({\,.,} and rec.crafts.metalworking) (search for "warez" in the Agent help files for a full explanation) |
Agent kill filter help please
I'm not addressing you personally, Eric, but developing a practice of never
replying to the morons with agendas would deny them of the attention they crave.. and eventually they'll fade away. This would include ignoring the MWAs when they ask for metalworking help.. by seeing the value of their eventual absence. Then, finally, those with actual metalworking interests could resume metalworking discussions without all the added bull****. -- WB .......... wrote in message ... 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? Thanks, Eric |
Agent kill filter help please
On 9/2/2011 9:58 PM, Steve Ackman wrote:
On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 11:29:22 +0000 (UTC), Kelly D. Grills wrote: * DoN. : I don't know Agent specifically, but the usual trick is to count commas in the "Newsgroups: " header. One comma is two newsgroups, two commas is three an so forth. FYI the Xref header is preferred over the Newsgroups header. http://www.slrn.org/docs/slrn-FAQ-4.html#ss4.14 From one slrn bigot to another. :-) Zealot, not bigot. ;-) at least with thunderbird, I just discovered I could put a custom filter type of "headers" into my filter and then delete messages posted to the usual annoying places - reduced my daily number of messages from hundreds to a few dozen that seem to be somehow related to the topic of metal working |
Agent kill filter help please
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Agent kill filter help please
On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 00:01:13 -0400, "Wild_Bill"
wrote: I'm not addressing you personally, Eric, but developing a practice of never replying to the morons with agendas would deny them of the attention they crave.. and eventually they'll fade away. This would include ignoring the MWAs when they ask for metalworking help.. by seeing the value of their eventual absence. Then, finally, those with actual metalworking interests could resume metalworking discussions without all the added bull****. Greetings Bill, I don't reply to any of those messages. Or read them. Especially when so many of them have some sort of made up name that's aimed at insulting someone. BTW, do you have, or did you have, anything to do with KPIG? Eric |
Agent kill filter help please
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Agent kill filter help please
I hadn't heard of that station until you mentioned it, Eric.. funny callsign
though. I was interested in hearing some programming (I'm in western PA), but it seems that a subscription is required, and I didn't see if a subscription feed would be commercial-free, so I lost interest. Yep, same as you.. I just hit the delete key for all the crap posts. -- WB .......... wrote in message ... Greetings Bill, I don't reply to any of those messages. Or read them. Especially when so many of them have some sort of made up name that's aimed at insulting someone. BTW, do you have, or did you have, anything to do with KPIG? Eric |
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