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Achoo Guest
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Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2002 7:00 am Post subject: List Your Newsgroup Filters Here |
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Since I'm relatively new to Usenet, I thought it would be helpful to start a thread about filtering. So what kinds of filters do you veterans use? Right now I'm simply filtering out uppercase subjects and those that contain more than two exclamation marks in a row. I'd like to figure out a way to filter subject lengths that are more than 100 columns in width, too... haven't quite nailed that one yet.
So what do you guys use? List 'em here to we can all improve our signal-to-noise ratio while browsing. |
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HollyBerries
Joined: 06 Apr 2002 Posts: 32
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Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2002 10:34 am Post subject: |
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I don't use filtering at all. We don't get a whole lot of spam or trolling in the anime groups in general, and I find that a lot of the time filtering accidentally blocks out legitimate posting. My two cents, anyway. |
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Gorunova
Joined: 10 Feb 2002 Posts: 318 Location: Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2002 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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I've never used filters or killfiles. The newsgroups I read are very low on spam, and I generally find idiots entertaining, so I have no need to filter.
The only special measure I take is to avoid posting my main email address to newsgroups, to avoid having it buried under spam. I use throwaway email addresses when posting to Usenet - they're real addresses, but I only check them for genuine mail every couple of weeks. |
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xo Site Admin
Joined: 09 Feb 2002 Posts: 466 Location: Los Angeles [comcast]
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Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2002 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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!Dragon *ball
!DBZ
!DBGT
Not really , though . I used to keep a list of kills but I switched newsreaders and never bothered to move those over.
Now, it's mostly just hilighting my nick, so's I don't miss any Attns to me.
-xo |
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Keikai
Joined: 18 Feb 2002 Posts: 178 Location: Miami, FL
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Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2002 10:03 am Post subject: |
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Like others, I used to use filters but discovered that it's hard to make a filter that doesn't at least occasionally drop stuff I wouldn't want to miss. So I don't use them at all anymore. I find if you are using a news client with an efficient enough interface, you rarely need filters, at least in low-crap-ratio NGs like ours. |
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earthdark
Joined: 21 Feb 2002 Posts: 73
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Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2002 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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Filtering isn't really needed for the anime groups... but for heavy binary groups, you might want to filter out anything that's less than 10KB, subject does not contain ?AR|R??|ACE|A??|ZIP|NFO|SFV, marked read, and is older than three days. Sort the group by post subject, and set auto-purge to six days. Yes this will kill all discussion threads but for certain binary groups, it's very effective in sorting through the gigs of stuff posted everyday. |
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