Filtering newsgroup messages from Google Newsgroups

mb

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Apr 14, 2008, 11:18:48 AM4/14/08

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I want to ignore all messages from Google Newsgroups. I tried this one in
scores.hst but it doen't work

[*]
-1 User-agent: "G2/1.0"

What's wrong?

Thank you

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Hamster.user

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Apr 14, 2008, 12:34:52 PM4/14/08

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On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:18:48 +0200 'mb'
wrote this on hamster.en.misc:

Try this one exactly as-is:

[*]
=-9999 Message-ID "googlegroups.com"

mb

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Apr 15, 2008, 2:41:35 AM4/15/08

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FredW wrote on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:16:53 +0200:

> What is "user-agent" ?

It's the name of the Google "newsreader"

> I use this one:
> -532 ~message-id ".googlegroups.com"

Thank you.

mb

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Apr 15, 2008, 2:42:08 AM4/15/08

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Hello, Hamster.user wrote on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:34:52 +0100:

> Try this one exactly as-is:

Thank you

Hamster.user

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Apr 15, 2008, 6:11:37 AM4/15/08

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On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:42:08 +0200 'mb'
wrote this on hamster.en.misc:

>Hello, Hamster.user wrote on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:34:52 +0100:

>
>> Try this one exactly as-is:
>
>Thank you

YW.
A good way to check that the filter is working is to hit Ctrl-K
in Hamster (to bring up killfile list) immediately after downloading
new headers and scan down the list looking for entries with that
score number (-9999, but you could use any other number).
Then check they are all Googlers.

I tend to use different score numbers for different groups,
so I can easily recognise them in that list.

mb

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Apr 15, 2008, 12:44:22 PM4/15/08

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Hamster.user wrote

> I tend to use different score numbers for different groups,
> so I can easily recognise them in that list.

Good idea

This is my scorefile Google filtering line

=-6789 Message-ID "googlegroups.com"

I hope Google will implement an efficient spam filter for the newsgroups.

Thank you.

Michael Jaritz

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Apr 15, 2008, 2:05:39 PM4/15/08

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mb schrieb:

You have tried to filter against a Header which is not in the Overview.
You find the Overview-Header in a file
|..\Hamster\Server\news.motzarella.org\overview.txt

Most these Headers are in Overview:
Subject:
From:
Date:
Message-ID:
References:
Bytes:
Lines:
Xref:full

If you want to filter against other Headers you need a leading "?".
Example:
|?-1 User-agent: "G2/1.0"

Michael

Wolfgang Jäth

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Apr 15, 2008, 3:19:25 AM4/15/08

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"mb" <m...@freemail.it> schrieb ...

You didn't read the manual carefully. :-)

Hint: You can filter only for the headers contained in the overview data, or
you have to use the '?'.

Wolfgang
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xman

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Apr 26, 2008, 12:44:58 AM4/26/08

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"Hamster.user" <hamste...@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
news:b668087ce4e88da6...@localhost.127.0.0.1...

>
> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:42:08 +0200 'mb'
> wrote this on hamster.en.misc:
>
>>Hello, Hamster.user wrote on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:34:52 +0100:
>>
>>> Try this one exactly as-is:
>>
>>Thank you
>
> YW.
> A good way to check that the filter is working is to hit Ctrl-K
> in Hamster (to bring up killfile list) immediately after downloading
> new headers and scan down the list looking for entries with that
> score number (-9999, but you could use any other number).
> Then check they are all Googlers.
>

I notice the filter does work, but Ctrl-K does not bring a window up with a
killfile list?

xman

Hamster.user

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Apr 26, 2008, 5:16:05 AM4/26/08

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On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:44:58 -0700 'xman'
wrote this on hamster.en.misc:

It should do ... try the 'Configuration' menu button at the top
in Hamster's main window and scroll down six lines.