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  • [slrn] HOw to filter out all googo-groups postings in slrn?

    From William Unruh@21:1/5 to All on Tue Nov 7 13:58:02 2023
    HOw do I in slrn filter out all google-groups postings? These bombings
    of the newnet groups is making groups useless.

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  • From Ralph Fox@21:1/5 to William Unruh on Wed Nov 8 03:18:06 2023
    On Tue, 7 Nov 2023 13:58:02 -0000 (UTC), William Unruh wrote:

    HOw do I in slrn filter out all google-groups postings? These bombings
    of the newnet groups is making groups useless.


    This site is now a few years old, but its GG filter for slrn may still work.

    "The Usenet Improvement Project - Filters Examples 1"
    <http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/filters_ex1.html>


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    Kind regards
    Ralph Fox

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  • From Bozo User@21:1/5 to William Unruh on Sun Nov 12 19:04:11 2023
    On 2023-11-07, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:
    HOw do I in slrn filter out all google-groups postings? These bombings
    of the newnet groups is making groups useless.

    My setup at /var/spool/slrnpull/news/score:


    %BOS
    %Score created by slrn on Mon Oct 9 15:25:16 2023

    [*]
    Score: -9999
    Injection-Info: .*google-groups\.googlegroups\.com
    X-Trace: posting\.google\.com

    [*]
    Score: -9999
    Injection-Info: .*google-groups\.googlegroups\.com

    %EOS




    I put both methods with and without X-Trace
    just to be safe.

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  • From Phil Boutros@21:1/5 to William Unruh on Sun Nov 12 20:57:54 2023
    William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:
    HOw do I in slrn filter out all google-groups postings? These bombings
    of the newnet groups is making groups useless.

    I simply have a filter for:

    Message-ID: googlegroups

    Phil
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  • From andrew@21:1/5 to Ralph Fox on Thu Nov 16 03:35:40 2023
    On 2023-11-07, Ralph Fox <-rf-nz-@-.invalid> wrote:

    This site is now a few years old, but its GG filter for slrn may still work.

    "The Usenet Improvement Project - Filters Examples 1"
    <http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/filters_ex1.html>

    Thanks Blinky!

    Andrew

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  • From Ralph Fox@21:1/5 to andrew on Thu Nov 16 18:32:48 2023
    On 16 Nov 2023 03:35:40 GMT, andrew wrote:

    Thanks Blinky!

    To avoid any possible confusion...

    * Blinky the Shark passed away in 2009.
    * <http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/> is a backup of
    Blinky's original site improve-usenet.org before it went offline
    later in 2009.
    * I cannot claim any connection either to Blinky or to the backup.


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    Kind regards
    Ralph Fox

    Æghwæt forealdað þæs þe ece ne byð.

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  • From Harold Stevens@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 16 02:41:52 2023
    In <tbablihose3e4crc8mm861dkvunvh8ttqn@4ax.com> Ralph Fox:

    On 16 Nov 2023 03:35:40 GMT, andrew wrote:

    Thanks Blinky!

    To avoid any possible confusion...

    * Blinky the Shark passed away in 2009.

    ... sorely missed. Here's a thread from a forum archive:

    http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1034&message=30863813

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    I toss GoogleGroup (http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/).

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  • From andrew@21:1/5 to Ralph Fox on Mon Nov 20 00:57:24 2023
    On 2023-11-16, Ralph Fox <-rf-nz-@-.invalid> wrote:

    * Blinky the Shark passed away in 2009.
    * <http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/> is a backup of
    Blinky's original site improve-usenet.org before it went offline
    later in 2009.

    Seems just Blinky just died the other day, scary that it has been well
    over a decade...

    Andrew
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    You think that's air you're breathing now?

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  • From John Dillinger@21:1/5 to andrew on Mon Nov 20 09:39:25 2023
    On 20 Nov 2023 00:57:24 GMT, andrew <andrew@skamandros.invalid> wrote:

    Seems just Blinky just died the other day, scary that it has been well
    over a decade


    I read that web page. Starting off your proposal with insults of the
    users of Usenet does not help your cause. YMMV. IMHO.

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