Re: [TIN] Feature inquiry
- From: Whiskers <catwheezel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 14:50:21 +0000
On 2007-12-23, JM <nomail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Frank Slootweg <this@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
JM <nomail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
MacSOUP could do that *very* easily and transparently. I really wonder
why no command-line newsreader seems to do it (I'd be ready to switch
to another non-GUI client for this single feature).
Please give an example of how this is used - i.e. command(s) used and
example killfile entry - and how (you think) this feature actually
works.
It's just a matter of selecting "auto-kill" instead of "kill" in the
filter's dialog box. Replies to posts matching the specified condition
will be killed (marked as read) along with the post that actually matched.
I haven't got a MacSOUP installation handy, but trust me: I've used it
for years and I've used the feature extensively.
Having said that, some of the slrn-gurus [1] do rather amazing stuff
with user-written macros, so you may want to re-ask this particular
question again for slrn.
Yeah, there is a macro that implements this feature. Kudos to the
author, who probably achieved the most an external macro can do, but
it's slow and frankly doesn't even work too well.
IME, most features added to slrn through macros tend to be kludges.
The problem is that when a poster has no consistent unique-to-them part of
their Message-IDs, you need to maintain a list of every Message-ID for their
posts in order to score or filter responses to those articles. Slrn has
no such facility built in, but a macro has been created that apparently
does the job. I haven't tried it yet, so I can't comment on how well it
works. See
Message-ID: <20071204173758@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [slrn] automatic scoring followups
From: Troy Piggins <usenet-0712@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:56:19 +1000
for more information.
Does MacSOUP have a built-in tool for doing that, or do you in fact have
to manually identify each article to which you want responses filtered?
If you use a local 'news-server' then it night be possible to have a
script that adds an identifier to the headers of the posts concerned so
that a newsreader can filter or score on that special header, or can edit
a score-file for the newsreader directly - or the news-server can silently
drop those posts by MIDs in the References header, so that the news-reader
needs to do nothing, if you just want to 'kill' them. Perhaps I might even
try that sort of approach myself, one of these days, if/when I get up to
speed with scripting ...
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