Re: Making XNews filters persist?

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:52:12 +0000, Bluuuue Rajah wrote:

Blinky the Shark <no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Just for the record, you're aware of the score file, right?

The problem with the score file is that you can only score one thread at
a time. Until the election is past, I'm trying to eliminate all
political threads. There are a lot of them, and it is very laborious to
eliminate them one at a time.

So far, I'm just recalling past filters from the list, marking
everything read and discarding them. From other posts, I gather that's
the best way to do it with XNews. :(

Are you sure about that?

Use pipes "|" in the score file to your advantage. And by "score file" I
mean the one you edit by hand, "score.ini", opened via the Special menu
in Xnews.

Here's an anti-politics-spam filter that I use under in Xnews that you're
welcome to try.

%%----------------------------

[.]

Score:: -9999

% [OT] religious or socio-political subjects follow:

Subject: \ballah\b|amish|atheism|bible|china|chinese|\bchrist( |ian)|\bgod\b|\bhell|islam

Subject: \bholy\b|\bracis|\btrail.*trash|india|jehov|jesus|m(a|o|u)h(a|o)mm?|muslim|\bsuni
Subject: Alhadin|Hamid|Saad|Hakeem|Islam|Moammar|Waleed|Rasheed|Ibrahim|Hussein|Abdullah|Feyd

Subject: Osama|Khalid|Shah|Hakim|Mo?usta(ph|f)a|Imran|Abdel|Ibraheem|Iman|Abduljalil|Rashid

Subject: Ayaz|Latif|Ahmed|Masood|brahimi

Subject: terrori|nazi|ill?egal.*aliens?|presiden|\bwar\b|troll( |s|i)|fbi

Subject: \bUS Elect|liberal( |s|ism)|\bpoliti|\bdemocra|\bbush\b|repub(s?|lic)

%%----------------------------

If any new OT terms get through the above filter its easy to add to it
using pipes, and you can have as many lines as required, for example,
a possible new line could go something like:
Subject: Palin|Hillary|Barrack|McCain

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