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Murray Peterson

More options May 17 2000, 3:00 am

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From: m...@home.com.invalid (Murray Peterson)

Date: 2000/05/17

Subject: Re: Xnews: Xref vs Newsgroups for scoring / killing crossposts

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s...@hotmail.co- (Don) wrote:
>I have used that. its doesn't work too well, and I'd like a little
>more control over the operation.

Not sure what you mean by "more control". You can put this in your
score file:

[.]
Score:: -9999
Xref: blond|(.*:){4,}

This kills any post with crossposting to 4 or more groups, and any
posting to a group containing "blond".

Anything fancier can be gotten from studying the scoring.txt and
pcre.html files included with Xnews.

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