Re: WHY?
- From: mimus <tinmimus99@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:39:55 -0400
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:50:44 -0000, Ted of Ted's Tennis wrote:
> Somebody claiming to be Mike Christie <mike.christie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote in news:SsadnQXtvIH2kcPeRVn-sA@xxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
>> Ted of Ted's Tennis wrote:
>>> I've taken to killfiling direct replies to Whisper and Groundaxe as
>>> well; Hazelwood unfortunately posts from Google Groups which makes
>>> killfiling replies to him a bit more difficult. (One doesn't
>>> necessarily want to kill all replies to posts from Google Groups.)
>>
>> Can I ask how you killfile repliers? I'd like to figure out how to
>> do this too; I'm using Thunderbird as my newsreader.
>
> Use the References: header. The References: header lists several of the
> previous articles' Message-IDs in the (sub-)thread in order from oldest to
> newest in order that the newsreader may thread properly; your message, for
> example, has the header:
>
> <snip>
>
> References: <Xns96F9D30EAE6Erdamerikyahoocouk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> <1130180532.062912.20510@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> <ysa7f.493510$5N3.224955@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> <1130190172.523914.55190@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> <Xns96F9E36CE897Ctedstennismyrealboxcom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> <87h7f.495463$5N3.420133@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> <Xns96F9EB43EE993tedstennismyrealboxcom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> </snip>
>
> I don't know how this would work in Thunderbird, but in Xnews (or in my
> case, Hamster -- I'm doing it from the proxy server), you can kill
> messages that have a particular string at the end of the References:
> header, eg.
>
> <snip>
>
> -1201 References:
> {@nnrp1\.ozemail\.com\.au\>$|news\.blueyonder\.co\.uk\>$}
>
> </snip>
>
> The \ before the period means you're looking for an actual . character;
> the $ mean the end of the header, and the | is a Boolean OR.
It's much easier on Gravity ("filters") or 40tude Dialog ("actions"), both
free, the latter superior _and_ being maintained:
http://www.40tude.com/dialog/
See, for example, my 40tude Dialog Subject action which I often use as my
..sig (a deliberate provocation), which "deletes" (doesn't download) any
post with the appended words or phrases in its Subject header.
You can also act on "From" and knock out individual posters or at least
nyms, which is of course the classic "killfiling" or "plonking".
And you can set up such action on other headers too, as a group, which of
course must act after the post is downloaded.
--
!delete Subject "Sampras" "Best" "Worst" "Top" "Greatest"
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