Re: Yet another killfile question. . .

Kirk Davies (Kirk.Davies@pobox.com)
Wed, 26 Jun 1996 16:17:57 +1000

In article <IyUsxob33bJZ089yn@kaiwan.com>,
cthulhu@kaiwan.com (Cthulhu The Old) wrote:

> I'm no stranger to SOUPER and its killfile ability, but I was wondering if
> someone had found a way to kill messages that have no Message-ID header. In
> one of the newsgroups I read, some a**hole has decided to post binaries with
> no Message-ID header, which of course SOUPER downloads but YARN rejects. Is
> there any way to kill said messages?

Are you sure about this? It is my understanding that news servers either
won't accept articles without a Message-ID or will generate a Message-ID
if it is missing.

I also don't think that such messages would be propagated to other servers.

Are the messages in question maybe from a mailing list?

-- 
Kirk Davies <Kirk.Davies@pobox.com>  Electronic Adventurer, etc.

"Boldly going where angels fear to tread."