news.software.readers

Peter J Ross wrote:
> In on 24 Aug 2007 17:42:11 GMT, Blinky the Shark
>< @ > wrote:
>
>> William Poaster wrote:
>>> It was on, or about, Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:25:33 +0000, that as I was
>>> halfway through a large jam doughnut, Blinky the Shark wrote:
>>>
>>>> Leafnode also has this setting:
>>>>
>>>> ## If you want to have your newsreader score/kill on Xref: lines, you
>>>> might ## want to uncomment this.
>>>> # create_all_links = 1
>>>>
>>>> I don't have it enabled. And so don't know what "full" means, there in
>>>> that .
>>>
>>> I have always had it enabled, so you can kill on *any* header including
>>> anything in the "Path:..." such as (for ):-
>>> ^Path:.*news\.cnntp\.org* or ^Path:.*bigpond\.com*
>>
>> I've never read anything about that setting affecting anything but Xref
>> (basing it on Newsgroups).
>
> That's because it affects nothing but Xref. You can score on any
> header in Leafnode, but create_all_links creates the crossposted
> groups locally, with the result that they're mentioned in the Xref
> line.

That's about what I figured.

>>> BTW, something else you can do with leafnode is kill the dolts who post
>>> in HTML: ^Content-Type:.*text/html

Right. I'd rather insult them. :)

But yeah, that might be a good fiter. Thanks to William for mentioning
that, too.



>> I do that with my mail client, too.
>
> When you switch to Leafnode 2, you'll discover the delights of
> "select" and "score" rules as well as the ordinary "kill" rules.
>
> I wonder how this would work?
>
> # Most "kill" rules go above these next lines; all posts
> # "selected" by these lines will *not* be killed by subsequent
> # rules.
> newsgroups = .+
>
> pattern = ^Content-Type:\s*text/plain
> action = select
> # allows plain-text MIME posts through
>
> pattern = ^Content-Type:\s*multipart/alternative
> action = select
> # allows PGP-MIME etc through, but has the side-effect of
> # allowing HTML if it's accompanied by a plain-text
> # alternative
>
> # add other exceptions here
>
> pattern = ^Content-Type:
> action = kill
> # kills not only HTML but also attached binaries and other
> # crap

So once an article is selected, kills don't affect it; but once an
article is killed, that's it for that article?


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