Re: Crossposting


I just drop in this group occasionally just to see what's
happening. This post caught my eye. Of course, I've not
been current with the thread, but it appears that some
are interested in SW, or techniques to reduce/eliminate
xposting amongst the groups visited.

I can only offer that those using OE v6, at appropriate
update level, will be treated to automatic purge of xpost
items among the groups they read.

For example, if I am subscribed to soc.retirement and
a fictitious group called soc.retirement.xpost, all xpost'd
items will be removed from the group accessed subseq-
uently to the other.

For those with interest or concerns about xposting, it sure
make life a lot easier than what I've seen mentioned here.

Thanks,

Gary




"Rita" <nitany_98@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 11:18:12 -0800, El Castor
<anyonethere@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

jimstevens <jimstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:00:34 -0800, El Castor
<anyonethere@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

jimstevens <jimstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:46:33 GMT, Rita <nitany_98@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:35:49 -0500, "Jim Higgins"
<gordian238@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"Sordo" <sordo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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http://west.porterfield.net/nfilter/download.html

http://west.porterfield.net/nfilter/faq.html#1.5

It has no mention of Windows XP so I assume that nFilter isn't for
me? XP
equivalent?

The program ceased to be supported by its creators before XP
came on the scene. I run it with XP and so does El Castor.
If you have any problems installing and setting it up, let us
know.

The filter I use that kills all cross posts is:

* drop xref:*:*:*

You can copy this and paste it in the filter box.

The instructions are not very good at all. In your news reader
(Agent, Outlook Express, whatever) instead of the name of your
ISP's news server you must type localhost.

I had trouble installing it with XP until someone told me to zip
the file and then install it. That worked.

You can place the program in your start-up folder so it will
start up with Wiindows.


I tried to install it yesterday again and it refused saying it was not
a 32 "bit or some such" program. Damn shame there is not something
out there that is modern and vetted.

Does it run from the zipped format???

I've seen this before. I think you downloaded a bad one -- maybe
compiled for Linux. I just uploaded NewsProxy.exe to
alt.binaries.test. It's the same as Nfilter and works fine with XP.

Jeff

"The moonbats bark thrice at midnight."

I did download again and ran it. It stared up and I put in the
language for crossposting but it did not work. I put the language
into a file called nfilter.dat and know that nfilter saw the file
because it balked once when I used incorrect term.

Not sure it is seeing same thing as Agent see however. I deleted some
crossposted messages then did an update for past 2000 messages. It
still got the crossposted items.

Nfilter did say it was looking at Port 119. I suppose Agent is using
that port????

For loading I first ran Nfilter, then loaded up Agent.

Had a ton of crashes while composing response messages in agent as
well. Seems most of the crashes came just after I entered the
newsgroup in header element. Agent does not automatically enter it in
soc.retirement but I noticed that it did enter it in a baseball group
I frequent. Very strange.

Oh well. Got to go workout and then work on it later today.

NewsProxy sits between Agent and the news server. Once both have been
configured, Agent talks to NewsProxy and NewsProxy passes what Agent
has to say to the news server. The news server sends all traffic back
to NewsProxy which applies it's filters and then passes what is left
to Agent. There is nothing inherent in NewsProxy which could or should
cause Agent to crash -- but computers are mysterious things. (-8

Agent has to be configured to talk to NewsProxy rather than the news
server. You accomplish that by (in ver. 2.0 of Agent):

1. In Agent's "Options/General Preferences/News Server" type
"localhost" (without the quotes) in the Host Name field. That is the
ONE and ONLY change you make to your Agent configuration.

2. In Newsproxy's Edit/Configuration/Network you type your news
server's name in the "Server Name Or IP Number" field. This is the
name that was in the Agent field before you substituted "localhost".

At that point, before setting any filters, I would unload and re-load
both Agent and NewsProxy and give them a test. Agent should work just
as it did before NewsProxy was installed. Nothing will be filtered,
but all your news server traffic will now be routed through NewsProxy.
NewsProxy is very fast so you should not notice a difference in speed.

3. If the test goes ok, you should setup a filter. Here's the filter
expression I use -- you can just cut and paste:

soc.retirement drop xref:*:*:*

That limits cross post filtering to soc.retirement, and as I recall
permits one cross post. (No one cross posts to just two groups, so
I've never bothered to change it.)

I'm using Agent 2.0, and it has never crashed -- before or after
NewsProxy, however if NewsProxy doesn't load properly (it's in my
Startup folder) or fails to establish a connection to the news server,
Agent will be unable to talk to the news server and will give you an
error message -- which is not quite the same thing as crashing.

Hope that helps.

Jeff

Good explanation. Jim put the filter in the wrong place. It goes
under Edit/Filters. You leave the filter.dat language alone.

If he wants to filter all cross posts from all news groups, the
filter language is:

* drop xref:*:*:*

This can be copied from this post and pasted in.

You can check to see if your filter is working by looking at
"dropped posts".


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