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Annika1980 wrote:
On Aug 16, 4:51 pm, m II wrote:
Due to the insane amount of spam and garbage,
I block all postings with a Gmail, Google Mail,
Google Groups or HOTMAIL address.
I also filter everything from a .cn server.


I gotta ask how you read my post since I posted it thru Google groups?

Get the 'bird. http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/all.html or Agent.

Life will be a lot easier than google groups drearily slow interface.


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* Alan Browne wrote :
Troy Piggins wrote:
* Alan Browne wrote :
Troy Piggins wrote:

Of course you can choose to filter on whatever you like, it's
your filter. But you are quoting a URL with a particular
philosophy that you are not adopting. You'd be more correct if
you left your philosophy there in your sig and removed the URL,
or actually embrace the philosophy of the UIP and killfile based
on M-IDs. Your sig is misleading.
Thunderbird (the best compromise for my use) cannot filter but on a few
parameters such as subject and from. That is imperfect, but allows
removal of @gmail.com and @googlemail.com for example.

I understand that. But what I was talking about was that the
person I was following up to was quoting a URL to
http://improve-usenet.org/ in their sig. The UIP is not about
filtering based on email addresses, it's about filtering based on
User-Agent being googlegroups. I was merely pointing out that
UIP was being misrepresented, but believe the sig has since been
amended.

TB's filtering is not really that useful on it's own. But if you
run a local newsproxy like Hamster or NewsProxy, which you can
setup to do some very powerful filtering, it's much better. More
he

Do you mean that that will filter before TB gets the news from the
newsserver?

Yes.

You run the proxy program which downloads news articles from your
usual news server. The proxy program has a filter file, where
you can set up rules or scores. Depending on what you like and
don't like to read, you can assign positive or negative scores.
If at the end of passing all those rules an article has a
negative score, it doesn't get downloaded. If it's positive, it
does.

Then you just set up TB to read news from your local proxy
instead of the actual newsserver. TB won't even see anything
that got a negative score.

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I always appreciate critique.

Moose & Squirrel wrote:

Alan Browne wrote:

Gotcha. I'd need the same sort of thing for Max OS X. I'll look into it.

MT-NewsWatcher runs on a Mac...has kick@ss filtering, without the need
to pre-chew the newsfeed. AFWIW, it filters on Message ID which TB
either can't, or will never be capable of doing.

I think TB3 is going to have much reworked filtering capabilities, from
what I've read at bugzilla. I certainly hope so. And anything would be
an improvement from its current filtering brain-deadness. I pointed them
to Pan, which has essentially the same filtering syntax as slrn and Xnews
(and undoubtedly other clients), and which is very flexible.


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Need a new news feed? http://blinkynet.net/comp/newfeed.html

Moose & Squirrel wrote:
Alan Browne wrote:

Gotcha. I'd need the same sort of thing for Max OS X. I'll look into it.


MT-NewsWatcher runs on a Mac...has kick@ss filtering, without the need
to pre-chew the newsfeed. AFWIW, it filters on Message ID which TB
either can't, or will never be capable of doing.

It can't; doesn't mean 'never'. (wishful thinking on my part, perhaps).

just offering a suggestion

I appreciate it and will look into it.

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Blinky the Shark wrote:
Moose & Squirrel wrote:

Alan Browne wrote:

Gotcha. I'd need the same sort of thing for Max OS X. I'll look into it.
MT-NewsWatcher runs on a Mac...has kick@ss filtering, without the need
to pre-chew the newsfeed. AFWIW, it filters on Message ID which TB
either can't, or will never be capable of doing.

I think

TB3 is going to have much reworked filtering capabilities, from
what I've read at bugzilla. I certainly hope so. And anything would be
an improvement from its current filtering brain-deadness. I pointed them
to Pan, which has essentially the same filtering syntax as slrn and Xnews
(and undoubtedly other clients), and which is very flexible.

Thanks. May be worth the wait. I generally like TB despite a few quirks.

Don't like Xnews much although it has that 'raw' uncluttered feel that I
like. The menus are badly thought out. Don't use it and I don't
believe it is supported anymore in any case. Someone should grab the
source and give it a good makeover. It's not compiled for Mac OS X
either...

Agent is supposed to be pretty good, but also not compiled for Mac.

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-- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin
-- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch.
-- usenet posts from gmail.com and googlemail.com are filtered out.

Alan Browne wrote:

Blinky the Shark wrote:
Moose & Squirrel wrote:

Alan Browne wrote:

Gotcha. I'd need the same sort of thing for Max OS X. I'll look into it.
MT-NewsWatcher runs on a Mac...has kick@ss filtering, without the need
to pre-chew the newsfeed. AFWIW, it filters on Message ID which TB
either can't, or will never be capable of doing.

I think

TB3 is going to have much reworked filtering capabilities, from
what I've read at bugzilla. I certainly hope so. And anything would be
an improvement from its current filtering brain-deadness. I pointed them
to Pan, which has essentially the same filtering syntax as slrn and Xnews
(and undoubtedly other clients), and which is very flexible.

Thanks. May be worth the wait. I generally like TB despite a few quirks.

Don't like Xnews much although it has that 'raw' uncluttered feel that I
like. The menus are badly thought out. Don't use it and I don't
believe it is supported anymore in any case. Someone should grab the
source and give it a good makeover. It's not compiled for Mac OS X
either...

Luu has repeatedly said that he will not release the Xnews source.

Agent is supposed to be pretty good, but also not compiled for Mac.

And it's not a strong filterer, either. It requires one of the same news
proxies to pre-chew groups for it that TB does. That's why it appears on
the same page as TB he http://improve-usenet.org/filters_ex2.html


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Killing all posts from Google Groups
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Blinky the Shark wrote:


Luu has repeatedly said that he will not release the Xnews source.

Maybe he would take royaltie$. Not that it's a lucrative business.

If the source is as cluttered as the program, it might be a risky
venture for the buyer.

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-- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin
-- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch.
-- usenet posts from gmail.com and googlemail.com are filtered out.