Re: Filtering messages in MT-Newswatcher

In article <tph-197979.13515118082005@localhost>,
Tom Harrington <tph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've been trying to get MT-Newswatcher to filter messages based on the
> "Newsgroups" line. But I'm not having much luck with it. MT-NW just
> doesn't do anything based on these filters.
>
> I've got dozens of other working filters set up, based on other
> criteria, and they all seem to work. But filtering based on newsgroups
> isn't doing anything. I looked over the docs at the app's web site, and
> I think I've got everything configured correctly.
>
> Has anyone here had any success getting MT-NW to kill articles in this
> way? If I could get these filters to work, I could probably drop 2/3 of
> my other filter rules.

Group Filters -> new for the group you want

Set up the filter to:

[highlite (or kill)] if [Newsgroups] [matches the regular expression]

..+.,.+.,.+.


With 3 '.+.' it will allow 3 groups and kill more than 3.


if that makes sense.

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-Ernie-

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