Re: help with souper score files?

Michael Gray (LabRat@i-link.net)
Mon, 2 Dec 1996 19:31:12 -0500

In article <4Daoy8A62IqH092yn@egnatia.ee.auth.gr>,
adia@egnatia.ee.auth.gr (Alejandros Diamandidis) wrote:
>Hello. I've been using uqwk to get news, with trnkill to kill
>spam, but my ISP removed uqwk and trn while upgrading their
>unix server so I've decided to use souper. It works OK, but
>I can't understand how I can kill crossposts... I run souper
>with the following line:
>
>souper -h . -k 1024 -m -N hol_rc -K hol_kill
>
>and `hol_kill' contains the following:
>
>all {
>-1 pattern Newsgroups: .*,.*,.*,.*
>-1 Subject: money
>-1 Subject: cash
>-1 Subject: $$$
>10 Newsgroups: answers
>}
>
>I want to kill crossposts to 4 or more groups, except ones
>to an *.answers group, but the first line doesn't seem to work...
>I remember some time ago there were some posts about how to do it
>but I wasn't able to find them in the list archives...

Use the following line as your basis:
all {
Newsgroups [^,]+,[^,]+,[^,]+,[^,]+,[^,]+,[^,]+,.*
}
This kills 6 or more newsgroups unconditionally (you can't keep
*.answers - wish I could find a way to keep some of MY comp.os.os2
stuff that gets killed due to massive crossposting.) There was a
major explanation of regular expressions a month or so ago here in the
newsgroup. You might check the archives for a better explanation (it
went WAY over my head.)

>Incidentaly, I sent a message to "support" at my ISP, asking them
>to install souper in their unix server, so that
>I could download compressed soup packets. Is this a good idea?
>They told me they'd look at it, but they wanted to be sure there
>would be no problems with it running in the server.

Souper is a program that runs on your machine, unlike uqwk. You're
not at your ISP's mercy - but also you can't blame them for your
problems :-) No chance of them losing your carefully-built newsrc or
other essential files.

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