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Blinky the Shark wrote:
> -Lost wrote:
>> Yeah, I was referred here, um... 2 weeks ago by Blinky. I was going
>> to
>
> Never heard of this guy in my life. ;)

Hey, now. I know 99% of sharks don't have maternal or paternal
instincts, but don't be forsaking your shark brethren! :)

> Okay, yeah, I sent him here from a Thunderbird group before we confused
> the TB users with Xnews' configurability and power. :)

I know! I have been using Xnews on non-binary groups lately and I'm
thinking it may be my replacement for Thunderbird.

>> inquire about making sure I had my filters set up correctly in Xnews.
>
> BTW, have you digested the file in your Xnews directory? I
> don't remember if we talked about that in the moz group. If not, I
> refer you to it now.

Yeah, you basically pointed me there. I have went over it a time or
two, but I've never understood regular expressions so well, so it's no
wonder that I am half and half on the .

>> *However*, now I want to know why everytime I hit F5, Xnews crashes
>> with this error:
>>
>> "Access violation at address 00013096 in module ' '. Read of
>> address 35303310."
>
> Ow.

Yeah, I know. Guy fixed this error lickity-split!

>> Of course, the addresses are different each time. I cannot update my
>> groups. I am thinking it may have something to do with all the
>> filters I have in place.
>
> Can you paste them here?

Yes! I've been wondering if I've done them perfectly accurately anyway.

[.]
% user1
Score: 9999
From: user1@

% Blinky the Shark
Score: 9999
From: Blinky.*Shark

% user3
Score: 9999
From: user3@

% user4
Score: 9999
From: user4@

% user5
Score: 9999
From: user5@

% user6
Score: 9999
From: user6@

% Kill google IDs except for user1
Score: -9999
Message-ID: google
~From: user1@

% Kill google IDs except for user6
Score: -9999
Message-ID: google
~From: user6@

% Kill G2 user agent except for user1
Score: -9999
User-Agent: G2
~From: user1@

% Kill G2 user agent except for user6
Score: -9999
User-Agent: G2
~From: user6@

I had attempted at one point to put numerous filters together in this
fashion:

Score: 9999
From: user@
From: user2@
From: user3@

And if I remember correctly, this didn't work perfectly. I could be
wrong though since I haven't messed with these filters in almost 2 weeks.

The long list above though, is making everything work as expected. But
if there is a better way to do what I have, I'd love to hear it.

Oh, and I munged the addresses just to make sure I didn't tick anyone off.

>> Any ideas why it would be doing this otherwise? I'm going to attempt
>> to remove all filters and see what happens.
>
> Better idea than mine as a first test. Just temporarily rename you
> score file and see what happens. Close Xnews before you make the
> change.

I actually CTRL+X'd the contents, saved, reloaded, closed, opened and
crashed. So I just CTRL+V'd everything back in. Same thing though I guess.

Thanks for the tips as always, Sir Blinky.

--
-Lost
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