filtering

and also the numerical address of the big Chinese poster
can Agent do this?
Yes. While RTE is open, go to Message Filters Add Kill Filter.
In the Filter Expression window, type Subject: and use the {} brackets
to add your expression, such as {Prada} or {shoes} or whatever.
Check "Delete" button and "rec.travel.europe" button. Click OK.
Add more Subject: {} filters as necessary.

The IP address isn't in the Subject: line, so how could that work?
My newsreader lets you set rules for all of the standard header
lines, and that's what Agent needs to do; it shouldn't be difficult
to add that capability to what seems to be a well-written piece of
software.

==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === http://www.campin.me.uk ====
Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557
CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts

On Mar 27, 4:53 pm, glen black wrote:
I just last night set filters to kill google groups posters and also
the numerical address of the big Chinese poster. Today, instead of
dozens of offers of shoes,bags,watches I have twelve posts, all travel
related and all containing the old participants. I don't see
deepfriedmuffin nor divamanque this morning I hope they are just
silent, not filtered out; I value their posts. gb

Google groups is pretty useful for those of us who post from work
(shock!!) but can't install software on a work computer(groan!!)

B;

Following up to Dave Frightens Me
u wrote:

I am now using a newsreader called 40tude, which has some very powerful
filtering capabilites, and massively improves rte from my point of view.

this does seem a good newsreader, it seems you can give points to
posts, say -1000 if from Google groups (dont yet know how you do that)
then +2000 if from a known poster on google groups, then you test if
score is 500 or more and ditch the rest. It will turn filtering into a
bit of fun for all the family.

you can score these fields:-

From The From header field
Subject The Subject of the message
Date The Date of the message
Message-ID The Message-ID of the message
References The contents of the References header field
Bytes The number of bytes of the message
Lines The number of lines of the message
XRef The contents of the XRef header field
XPost A virtual, numerical field holding the number of groups
this message was posted to.
Age A virtual, numerical field holding the age of the article in
numbers of days.

DFM, save me reinventing the wheel or having to think for myself, how
do I clobber Google and the chinks with those?
Dont I need "posting host" and "organisation"?
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Mike
Remove clothing to email

Following up to Mike...... wrote:

you can score these fields:-

I now see:-

When retrieving bodies for articles or when receiving emails all
headers are available for scoring. You can then additionally score on
"Header". The variable "Header" holds the complete list of header
fields of the message, separated by CRLF pairs.

DFM could you do me a favour and email me a cut and paste of what you
are doing? In return I promise not to insult you for a week, nah, 3
days.
--
Mike
Remove clothing to email

Following up to VainGlorious wrote:

Yes. While RTE is open, go to Message Filters Add Kill Filter.
In the Filter Expression window, type Subject: and use the {} brackets
to add your expression, such as {Prada} or {shoes} or whatever.
Check "Delete" button and "rec.travel.europe" button. Click OK.
Add more Subject: {} filters as necessary. But be clever about it; you
don't want to filter too many innocent posts. (Yes, I'll miss innocent
posts about shoes in Holland or Prada stores in Milan, but it's a fair
trade-off).

I have also created Author: filters for google and gmail names. I will
not see posts from n00bs with author names that contain those
expressions. Too bad.

40tude will probably do this much better.
--
Mike
Remove clothing to email

Following up to Mike......

DFM could you do me a favour and email me a cut and paste of what you
are doing? In return I promise not to insult you for a week, nah, 3
days.

too late, ive fixed it myself, so you get the insults
--
Mike
remove clothing to email

Following up to Dave Frightens Me

I am now using a newsreader called 40tude, which has some very powerful
filtering capabilites, and massively improves rte from my point of view.

now i've got used to it I think its much better than Agent, the filtering
is miles better.
--
Mike
remove clothing to email

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:55:22 +0100, Mike..... wrote:

Following up to Dave Frightens Me

I am now using a newsreader called 40tude, which has some very powerful
filtering capabilites, and massively improves rte from my point of view.

now i've got used to it I think its much better than Agent, the filtering
is miles better.

Ah, I just posted a message telling you to do just that...
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DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com
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On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:03:04 +0100, Mike..... wrote:

Following up to Mike......

DFM could you do me a favour and email me a cut and paste of what you
are doing? In return I promise not to insult you for a week, nah, 3
days.

too late, ive fixed it myself, so you get the insults

Just don't give me your food!
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DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com
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Mister B wrote:
On Mar 27, 4:53 pm, glen black wrote:
I just last night set filters to kill google groups posters and also
the numerical address of the big Chinese poster. Today, instead of
dozens of offers of shoes,bags,watches I have twelve posts, all travel
related and all containing the old participants. I don't see
deepfriedmuffin nor divamanque this morning I hope they are just
silent, not filtered out; I value their posts. gb

Google groups is pretty useful for those of us who post from work
(shock!!) but can't install software on a work computer(groan!!)

B;
Don't you have a computer at home?