Re: VSoup and Killfile

Hardy Griech (rgriech@ibm.net)
Fri, 20 Sep 1996 11:04:10 +0200

On Fri, 20 Sep 1996 10:22:27 +0200,
tro@checksix.allcon.com (Olaf Scherdin) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> anyone with a working solution for using a kill-file ?
:

Yes, I have one (BTW: the killfile entries has nothing to do with living
persons, they are only test dummies, especially the mickeysoft entry ;-)):

all
{
from g.*rtler
from beck
from marx
subject microsoft
subject marx
}

comp.os.os2.networking.tcp-ip {
subject ultimail
subject netscape
}

Okay, and here is the corresponding output:

vsoup: connected to news server Atlas (getNews)
vsoup: 27 unread articles in comp.os.os2.announce
vsoup: 191 unread articles in comp.os.os2.networking.tcp-ip
vsoup: article killed Subject: Re: New WINSOCK and Netscape Atlas
vsoup: article killed Subject: Re: Problem with UltiMail Lite
vsoup: article killed Subject: Ultimail and Groupwise
vsoup: article killed Subject: Re: How to get Netscape/2
vsoup: article killed Subject: Re: Netscape Navigator Ver 2.0 under OS2
vsoup: article killed Subject: UltiMail/2 Lite (Connect) and UltiMail/2 [..]
vsoup: article killed Subject: Re: New WINSOCK and Netscape Atlas
vsoup: article killed Subject: Re: How to get Netscape/2
vsoup: article killed Subject: Re: Ultimail and Groupwise
vsoup: article killed Subject: Re: Netscape 3 beta in win-os2 help!
vsoup: article killed Subject: Netscape 2.0 GPF - Fix?
vsoup: article killed Subject: Re: Netscape 3 beta in win-os2 help!
vsoup: article killed Subject: Re: How to get Netscape/2
vsoup: article killed From: guertler@ipapc22.epfl.ch (sg)
vsoup: article killed Subject: Re: How to get Netscape/2
vsoup: article killed Subject: Re: GIF89a animation: WebEx-No, Netscape- [..]
vsoup: 122 unread articles in comp.os.os2.programmer.misc
vsoup: 18 unread articles in comp.os.os2.programmer.tools
vsoup: 9 unread articles in de.comp.os.os2.apps
vsoup: 31 unread articles in de.comp.os.os2.misc
vsoup: article killed From: frank.marx@pk.she.de (Frank Marx)
vsoup: article killed From: frank.marx@pk.she.de (Frank Marx)
vsoup: article killed From: tbeck@uniplus.ch (Thomas Beck)
vsoup: article killed From: tbeck@uniplus.ch (Thomas Beck)
vsoup: article killed From: tbeck@uniplus.ch (Thomas Beck)
vsoup: article killed From: tbeck@uniplus.ch (Thomas Beck)
vsoup: article killed From: tbeck@uniplus.ch (Thomas Beck)
vsoup: article killed From: tbeck@uniplus.ch (Thomas Beck)
vsoup: article killed From: tbeck@uniplus.ch (Thomas Beck)
vsoup: article killed From: tbeck@uniplus.ch (Thomas Beck)
vsoup: article killed From: tbeck@uniplus.ch (Thomas Beck)
vsoup: 13 unread articles in de.comp.os.os2.networking
vsoup: 4 unread articles in de.comp.os.os2.programmer
vsoup: 19 unread articles in de.comp.os.os2.setup
vsoup: 18 unread articles in fido.ger.os2
vsoup: article killed Subject: Re: Wer ist Frank Marx ?
vsoup: 6 unread articles in maus.os.os2.prog
vsoup: 0 unread articles in maus.os.os2.setup
vsoup: 9 unread articles in maus.os.os2.talk
vsoup: article killed From: frank.marx@pk.she.de (Frank Marx)
vsoup: article killed Subject: Re: Wer ist Frank Marx ?

vsoup: 409 articles read, 30 articles killed
vsoup: 4 threads were connected successfully
vsoup: totally 882474 bytes received, 8483 bytes transmitted
vsoup: 29.9s elapsed, throughput 29797 bytes/s

---------- Fri Sep 20 11:11:19 1996
vsoup finished, retcode=0
-----------------------------------

Don't bother about the throughput - this all happened locally!

>
> I only get the following result:
>
> souper: 5 unread articles in alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
> souper: article killed Subject: Re:booting from SCSI CD-rom?
> souper: article killed Subject: Re: Micron HORROR Story / Used as New
> souper: article killed Subject: Re: DENNIS GORRIE / Hypocritical Flame
> souper: article killed Subject: Re: Micron HORROR Story / Used as New
> souper: article killed Subject: Re: Micron HORROR Story / Used as New
>
> ooops - all 5 killed, no entry in killfile for that. That happens to all
> newsgroups.

Do you have something in your killfile like:

all {
subject: re:
}

????

> This is my command in the batch:
>
> souper -i -a -k 0 -m -K h:\mail\olaf\kill -t 3 nntp://news.allcon.net
>
> Hint:
>
> souper -i -a -k 0 -m -t 3 nntp://news.allcon.net
>
> w/o mentioning the killfile didn't work either. The killfile is located
> in the %HOME% directory. Well - at least I noticed a drastically
> improvement in kill-speed :-)
:

Ok, what does your %home% environment variable say? What are the
exact contents of your killfile?

And of course killing has become faster, because Souper retrieves for
killing first the HEAD and after checking the BODY. Souper has to do
it sequentially, while VSoup can do it in parallel for different
articles...

-- 
Hardy Griech, Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 25/1, D-72762 Reutlingen