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    From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 19 15:05:39 2023
    Hi,
    Is there any way to block threads that crosspost to a specific group?
    There's a lot of political spam in comp.os.linux.advocacy that I don't
    want to see.

    Something like if any message crossposts to *politics would be nice.
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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Ralph Fox on Tue Sep 19 16:06:10 2023
    On 9/19/23 15:53, Ralph Fox wrote:
    On Tue, 19 Sep 2023 15:05:39 -0500, candycanearter07 wrote:

    Hi,
    Is there any way to block threads that crosspost to a specific group?
    There's a lot of political spam in comp.os.linux.advocacy that I don't
    want to see.

    Something like if any message crossposts to *politics would be nice.

    That depends on the newsreader _and_ its version.

    In Forté Agent versions 4.0 and later I can use this filter expression:

    Newsgroups: politics



    Oh, sorry. Thunderbird, 115.2.2
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  • From Ralph Fox@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 20 08:53:04 2023
    On Tue, 19 Sep 2023 15:05:39 -0500, candycanearter07 wrote:

    Hi,
    Is there any way to block threads that crosspost to a specific group?
    There's a lot of political spam in comp.os.linux.advocacy that I don't
    want to see.

    Something like if any message crossposts to *politics would be nice.

    That depends on the newsreader _and_ its version.

    In Forté Agent versions 4.0 and later I can use this filter expression:

    Newsgroups: politics


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  • From Onorio Catenacci@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 19 17:21:11 2023
    On 9/19/23 5:06 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:

    Oh, sorry. Thunderbird, 115.2.2

    You might want to ask this question in alt.comp.software.thunderbird

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  • From Ralph Fox@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 20 10:23:57 2023
    On Tue, 19 Sep 2023 16:06:10 -0500, candycanearter07 wrote:
    On 9/19/23 15:53, Ralph Fox wrote:
    On Tue, 19 Sep 2023 15:05:39 -0500, candycanearter07 wrote:

    Hi,
    Is there any way to block threads that crosspost to a specific group?
    There's a lot of political spam in comp.os.linux.advocacy that I don't
    want to see.

    Something like if any message crossposts to *politics would be nice.

    That depends on the newsreader _and_ its version.

    In Forté Agent versions 4.0 and later I can use this filter expression:

    Newsgroups: politics


    Oh, sorry. Thunderbird, 115.2.2


    On the new filter pop-up...

    If the list of headers to filter on does not contain “Newsgroups”,
    then first select “Customise...” and add “Newsgroups” to the list.

    Screen-shot: <http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=26_ued2g2_1__thunderbird-filters.png>


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  • From RonB@21:1/5 to no@thanks.net on Thu Sep 21 00:41:47 2023
    On 2023-09-19, candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> wrote:
    Hi,
    Is there any way to block threads that crosspost to a specific group?
    There's a lot of political spam in comp.os.linux.advocacy that I don't
    want to see.

    Something like if any message crossposts to *politics would be nice.

    In slrn this kills ALL crossposted messages...

    [*]
    Score: -9999
    Xref: :.*:

    Probably works in Pan as well.

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to RonB on Wed Sep 20 21:49:52 2023
    On 9/20/23 19:41, RonB wrote:
    On 2023-09-19, candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> wrote:
    Hi,
    Is there any way to block threads that crosspost to a specific group?
    There's a lot of political spam in comp.os.linux.advocacy that I don't
    want to see.

    Something like if any message crossposts to *politics would be nice.

    In slrn this kills ALL crossposted messages...

    [*]
    Score: -9999
    Xref: :.*:

    Probably works in Pan as well.


    Using Thunderbird, but I'll keep it in mind.

    Would probably use *.politics
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  • From Pepi@21:1/5 to RonB on Thu Sep 21 17:12:55 2023
    On Thu, 21 Sep 2023 00:41:47 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

    In slrn this kills ALL crossposted messages...

    [*]
    Score: -9999
    Xref: :.*:

    Probably works in Pan as well.

    Yes, that should be correct.

    Not sure what everybody else are using to edit their Score file for Pan,
    but I started using Geany some years back and I found that Erlang has
    comments that are useful for editing the Score file because of syntax
    coloring. I was looking for a language that had percent signs for comment
    like characters and Geany had Erlang set up as one of its default syntax
    color modes. :)

    So, what I did was to set up a symlink to the Score file, but with a .erl extension and automagically, Geany thinks it's an Erlang file and gives me
    nice colors.

    Maybe other editors can do the same? :)

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  • From RonB@21:1/5 to no@thanks.net on Thu Sep 21 17:56:55 2023
    On 2023-09-21, candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> wrote:
    On 9/20/23 19:41, RonB wrote:
    On 2023-09-19, candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> wrote:
    Hi,
    Is there any way to block threads that crosspost to a specific group?
    There's a lot of political spam in comp.os.linux.advocacy that I don't
    want to see.

    Something like if any message crossposts to *politics would be nice.

    In slrn this kills ALL crossposted messages...

    [*]
    Score: -9999
    Xref: :.*:

    Probably works in Pan as well.


    Using Thunderbird, but I'll keep it in mind.

    Would probably use *.politics

    I tried Thunderbird for newsgroups for a while, but I didn't like it. I was coming over from Xnews in Windows (which I liked). Ended up going to Pan,
    then to slrn (so I could use JOE's Jstar "flavor" as my editor).

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to RonB on Thu Sep 21 13:41:41 2023
    On 9/21/23 12:56, RonB wrote:
    On 2023-09-21, candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> wrote:
    On 9/20/23 19:41, RonB wrote:
    On 2023-09-19, candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> wrote:
    Hi,
    Is there any way to block threads that crosspost to a specific group?
    There's a lot of political spam in comp.os.linux.advocacy that I don't >>>> want to see.

    Something like if any message crossposts to *politics would be nice.

    In slrn this kills ALL crossposted messages...

    [*]
    Score: -9999
    Xref: :.*:

    Probably works in Pan as well.


    Using Thunderbird, but I'll keep it in mind.

    Would probably use *.politics

    I tried Thunderbird for newsgroups for a while, but I didn't like it. I was coming over from Xnews in Windows (which I liked). Ended up going to Pan, then to slrn (so I could use JOE's Jstar "flavor" as my editor).


    Eh, I prefer a UI for stuff like news. Thanks though.
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  • From RonB@21:1/5 to Pepi on Thu Sep 21 18:17:56 2023
    On 2023-09-21, Pepi <pepi@egg.nog> wrote:
    On Thu, 21 Sep 2023 00:41:47 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

    In slrn this kills ALL crossposted messages...

    [*]
    Score: -9999
    Xref: :.*:

    Probably works in Pan as well.

    Yes, that should be correct.

    Not sure what everybody else are using to edit their Score file for Pan,
    but I started using Geany some years back and I found that Erlang has comments that are useful for editing the Score file because of syntax coloring. I was looking for a language that had percent signs for comment like characters and Geany had Erlang set up as one of its default syntax color modes. :)

    So, what I did was to set up a symlink to the Score file, but with a .erl extension and automagically, Geany thinks it's an Erlang file and gives me nice colors.

    Maybe other editors can do the same? :)

    I just use the Jstar variant of Joe (because I used WordStar for so long),
    but it doesn't have the nice colors. But I don't edit the scorefile by hand much -- just a handful of specialty filters (like the crosspost one above). Most of my filters are built by slrn automatically by hitting "k" and
    following the prompts. (The crosspost is the first filter I "build" when installing slrn on a new machine.)

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  • From RonB@21:1/5 to no@thanks.net on Fri Sep 22 02:13:16 2023
    On 2023-09-21, candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> wrote:
    On 9/21/23 12:56, RonB wrote:
    On 2023-09-21, candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> wrote:
    On 9/20/23 19:41, RonB wrote:
    On 2023-09-19, candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> wrote:
    Hi,
    Is there any way to block threads that crosspost to a specific group? >>>>> There's a lot of political spam in comp.os.linux.advocacy that I don't >>>>> want to see.

    Something like if any message crossposts to *politics would be nice.

    In slrn this kills ALL crossposted messages...

    [*]
    Score: -9999
    Xref: :.*:

    Probably works in Pan as well.


    Using Thunderbird, but I'll keep it in mind.

    Would probably use *.politics

    I tried Thunderbird for newsgroups for a while, but I didn't like it. I was >> coming over from Xnews in Windows (which I liked). Ended up going to Pan,
    then to slrn (so I could use JOE's Jstar "flavor" as my editor).


    Eh, I prefer a UI for stuff like news. Thanks though.

    Pan uses (basically?) the same scorefile as slrn, and it's a GUI
    application.

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to RonB on Fri Sep 22 09:32:57 2023
    On 9/21/23 21:13, RonB wrote:
    On 2023-09-21, candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> wrote:

    Eh, I prefer a UI for stuff like news. Thanks though.

    Pan uses (basically?) the same scorefile as slrn, and it's a GUI
    application.


    Eh.. thanks tho
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