[OT] Filtering uk.rec.drivel and uk.tosspot

Since it's silly season again with the uk.tosspot and uk.rec.drivel
regulars, my killfile has been taking on a beer-bellied appearance. I
use Mozilla 1.6 [1], and can easily killfile posters, but is there a
Cunning Way of filtering cross-posted threads?

R.

[1] I know, I know, separate emailer and newsgruppen readers are good,
but I've got so much time and energy tied up with this setup....

On 06/08/2005 09:23:35 Richard .address.uk wrote:

Since it's silly season again with the uk.tosspot and uk.rec.drivel
regulars, my killfile has been taking on a beer-bellied appearance. I use
Mozilla 1.6 [1], and can easily killfile posters, but is there a Cunning
Way of filtering cross-posted threads?

R.

[1] I know, I know, separate emailer and newsgruppen readers are good, but
I've got so much time and energy tied up with this setup....

I use Maxnews which has a custom filter, not sure if it can be set up for cross posts, could certainly kill files that are sent to uk.tosspot though.

--
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"Richard" .address.uk
wrote in message ...
Since it's silly season again with the uk.tosspot and uk.rec.drivel
regulars, my killfile has been taking on a beer-bellied appearance. I
use Mozilla 1.6 [1], and can easily killfile posters, but is there a
Cunning Way of filtering cross-posted threads?

Don't you like to hear the opinions of other road and transport mode users?

--
Matt B

in message , Richard
o.address.uk') wrote:

Since it's silly season again with the uk.tosspot and uk.rec.drivel
regulars, my killfile has been taking on a beer-bellied appearance.
I use Mozilla 1.6 [1], and can easily killfile posters, but is there a
Cunning Way of filtering cross-posted threads?

Yes. Match on any comma in the Newsgroups header. If your newsreader
uses regexp matching, then the pattern you want is

For no crossposted articles at all:
[a-z0-9\.-]*,.*

For no articles crossposted to more than one group:
[a-z0-9\.-]*,[a-z0.9\.-]*,.*

Of course you could simply killfile exact matches of the particular
groups you want to exclude (also in the Newsgroups header).

--
(Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

;; my other religion is Emacs

On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 09:54:28 +0100,
Matt B wrote:
"Richard" .address.uk
wrote in message ...
Since it's silly season again with the uk.tosspot and uk.rec.drivel
regulars, my killfile has been taking on a beer-bellied appearance. I
use Mozilla 1.6 [1], and can easily killfile posters, but is there a
Cunning Way of filtering cross-posted threads?

Don't you like to hear the opinions of other road and transport mode users?

I used to read uk.t. But even when I read both I tended to skip
crossposted threads. There is rarely anything of benefit to be learned
as either a cyclist or a motorist from X-posts.

Tim.

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and there was light.

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