[Users] Filtering and processing USENET

Dave Howorth dave at howorth.org.uk
Fri May 8 23:48:31 CEST 2020


On Fri, 8 May 2020 14:44:17 -0700
Tom <tgrom.automail at nuegia.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 8 May 2020 09:10:33 -0400
> Leon Fisk <lfiskgr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 8 May 2020 05:55:48 -0700
> > Tom <tgrom.automail at nuegia.net> wrote:
> > 
> > <snip>  
> > >Sounds to me maybe claws isn't the best suited for USENET access
> > >then. Unless I've got something wrong having the killfile for
> > >USENET is vitally important to hide all the spam. Thanks for
> > >clarifying though.    
> > 
> > I've been using it to read five NNTP Usenet groups for 10 years
> > now. I wanted a Linux solution that was similar to Agent. It took a
> > little getting use to but it beats anything Agent could do back at
> > that time, especially the filtering. This is a screen shot of the
> > processing rules from one of the nastier groups. I run this one
> > manually after entering the folder. All my others run automatically
> > upon entering the folder...
> >   
> 
> Sure, but I am subscribed to over over 40 newsgroups. It's impractical
> for me to treat each and every newsgroup with it's own filtering and
> run filtering manually.

So script it?


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