Jimmy Carter's Red Carpet
May 28th 2007, 5:36 am
#16
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Re: Jimmy Carter's Red Carpet
EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) <[email protected]> wrote:
> David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) wrote:
>
> > Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
[]
> >>I started plonking anybody posting exclusively US politics messages when
> >>they started to dominate rte.
> >
> >
> > I rarely see them, as many of them are crossposted to other newsgroups.
> > It's not unusual for me to download 100 messages from r.t.e, but only
> > see 5 after the others have been filtered!
>
> How do you filter cross-posts?
Quite easy- but how you do it exactly it will depend on the kind of
newsreader you have. I target specific newsgroups- and have any group
beginning with alt barred. Or, you can filter for any crosspost-
however, there are sometimes a few posts here crossposted to soc.*
groups which are worthwhile.
--
(*) ... of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate
http://www.davidhorne.net - real address on website
"Abominable, loyal, blind, apparently subservient."
Pres. Carter on Pres. Blair- May, 2007
> David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) wrote:
>
> > Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
[]
> >>I started plonking anybody posting exclusively US politics messages when
> >>they started to dominate rte.
> >
> >
> > I rarely see them, as many of them are crossposted to other newsgroups.
> > It's not unusual for me to download 100 messages from r.t.e, but only
> > see 5 after the others have been filtered!
>
> How do you filter cross-posts?
Quite easy- but how you do it exactly it will depend on the kind of
newsreader you have. I target specific newsgroups- and have any group
beginning with alt barred. Or, you can filter for any crosspost-
however, there are sometimes a few posts here crossposted to soc.*
groups which are worthwhile.
--
(*) ... of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate
http://www.davidhorne.net - real address on website
"Abominable, loyal, blind, apparently subservient."
Pres. Carter on Pres. Blair- May, 2007
May 28th 2007, 5:40 am
#17
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Re: Jimmy Carter's Red Carpet
On Mon, 28 May 2007 10:28:41 -0700, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) wrote:
>
>> Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Mon, 28 May 2007 00:09:47 +0100, [email protected] (David Horne, _the_
>>>chancellor (*)) wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Martin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>[]
>>>>
>>>>>>RTE is not the place to debate the internal problems of the USA.
>>>>>
>>>>>Why not? It seems to be a popular place to debate UK and
>>>>>French politics and internal problems. (I vaguely remember
>>>>>discussion of Austrian elections, also, not too long ago.)
>>>>
>>>>Off-topic doesn't bother me too much, unless it's just spam, and you can
>>>>filter most of that. However, the UK, France and Austria are in Europe.
>>>>That's at least a connection- and most of them are started with travel
>>>>'stuff.'
>>>
>>>I started plonking anybody posting exclusively US politics messages when they
>>>started to dominate rte.
>>
>>
>> I rarely see them, as many of them are crossposted to other newsgroups.
>> It's not unusual for me to download 100 messages from r.t.e, but only
>> see 5 after the others have been filtered!
>
>How do you filter cross-posts?
With Agent I can select how many groups a message has been posted to. A figure
of 1 seems to be the ideal number,
--
Martin
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) wrote:
>
>> Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Mon, 28 May 2007 00:09:47 +0100, [email protected] (David Horne, _the_
>>>chancellor (*)) wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Martin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>[]
>>>>
>>>>>>RTE is not the place to debate the internal problems of the USA.
>>>>>
>>>>>Why not? It seems to be a popular place to debate UK and
>>>>>French politics and internal problems. (I vaguely remember
>>>>>discussion of Austrian elections, also, not too long ago.)
>>>>
>>>>Off-topic doesn't bother me too much, unless it's just spam, and you can
>>>>filter most of that. However, the UK, France and Austria are in Europe.
>>>>That's at least a connection- and most of them are started with travel
>>>>'stuff.'
>>>
>>>I started plonking anybody posting exclusively US politics messages when they
>>>started to dominate rte.
>>
>>
>> I rarely see them, as many of them are crossposted to other newsgroups.
>> It's not unusual for me to download 100 messages from r.t.e, but only
>> see 5 after the others have been filtered!
>
>How do you filter cross-posts?
With Agent I can select how many groups a message has been posted to. A figure
of 1 seems to be the ideal number,
--
Martin
May 28th 2007, 6:02 am
#18
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Re: Jimmy Carter's Red Carpet
"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> How do you filter cross-posts?
You read news with a browser:
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2)
so you probably can't.
It's pretty obvious how to do it if your newsreader supports it.
Most people who use Windows seem to like Agent.
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> How do you filter cross-posts?
You read news with a browser:
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2)
so you probably can't.
It's pretty obvious how to do it if your newsreader supports it.
Most people who use Windows seem to like Agent.
============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk =============Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760
<http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975
stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557
