Re: filtering a newsgroup
Mark Weinstock (woody@interactive.net)
Mon, 09 Sep 1996 17:01:34 -0500
In article <fLbMyIIelUAY091yn@worf.netins.net>,
phdss@worf.netins.net (Brett Tabke) said something like:
>Someone somewhere was saying:
>
>>>to strip out all the talk about "Agent" and "Gravity" on the
>>>alt.usenet.offline-reader newsgroup. It looks like this
>>Filters only work on incoming EMAIL. To hide all the undesirable messages
>
>That is the problem - nobody wants the messages to be "hidden"
>everyone wants them "deleted". I for one hope Chin does consider
>putting in a true "delete-on-demand" command into any future message
>base/read commands. Instead of marking a message as having been
>read, mark it as deleted with the delete key.
>
>I've finally just broken down and started running three completely
>separate setups of yarn in different directories. Then I use
>separate .newsrc setups with a Uqwk run. So that I can finally sort
>out what should get deleted easier.
>
>I don't think my desires are that much different that anyone elses -
>there are a couple of favorite groups that I want to keep the
>messages indefinitely (6months to a year) and then groups I want to
>scan and delete the msgs daily without cluttering up my
>always-seems-full hard drive.
>
>>in a usenet news base you must use SCORING. Give the offending words/search
>>patterns a negative score and they will not bother you any longer.
>
>As long as they take up valuable hard drive space, they *ARE* a
>bother. I dunno, I've found scoring to be rather be, ah, hmm, (tip
>toe'ing) "useless" - does nothing but sort out an order, which I
>find irrelevant.
If you set the scoring to be under 0, it won't show up in your list. it
will still be in your newsbase, but it won't show.
As for keeping it out of your message base, if you use something like
souper, you can use scoring to prevent this stuff from being downloaded,
not just seen. That will definitely keep it out of the message base.
If you use uqwk, you could use trnkill to killfile some of this stuff
before it gets packaged and downloaded.
>
>---
>note to myself: shut the hell up and quit complaining - it is a
>freeware program.
>
>--
>Brett Tabke phdss@worf.netins.net
>
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