| Moe Trin 2007-10-05, 7:11 pm |
| On Thu, 04 Oct 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.debian, in article
<FO6dnU2DxIfBupjanZ2dnUVZ_q-jnZ2d@bresnan.com>, sk8r-365 wrote:
>Horton heard a Who named Moe Trin saying:
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>84!? Holy smokes. I have time for 3 groups. I'm so busy I have to
>be draconian about x-posting limits. BTW, on the matter of killing
>posts and expense; way I had it getting articles was very
>slowwwwwww.
There's a difference between _reading_ a newsgroup and scanning it.
That's the reason all of the netiquette guidelines and FAQs suggest
using a descriptive subject line. For more than half of the posts to
Usenet, the Subject: line - in fact, only the first 40 characters -
is probably all I'm going to see. The 'n' and 'c' keys get a lot of
use when looking at Usenet.
Actually, 84 groups isn't that bad, as _usually_ only about 45 have
any posts at all, and many of the groups don't even get double-digit
numbers of posts daily (heck, some don't even do that in a month). A
more accurate measure is the total article counts, and that has been
running around 5-600 per day before the news _reader_ (as opposed to
slrnpull) starts killing things.
>
>Now that's working and is F-A-S-T!
Glad to help.
>Here's my faster score file (thanks to you), but I have to set each item
>separately; for an unknown reason grouping isn't getting it:
>[*]
>Score: =-9999
> Xref: advocacy
>[*]
>Score: =-9999
> Xref: windows
[snip]
[*]
Score:: =-9999
Xref: advocacy
Xref: windows
Xref: conspiracy
Xref: flame
Xref: kook
Xref: microsoft
Xref: politics
Xref: :.*:.*:
Two colons on the score line, not one.
>% kills all "test" posts not in a *test NG
I kill them all, along with
Score: =-9999
Subject: don
Subject: read
Here, the single colon says this score only applies to posts where the
subject line includes BOTH the string 'don' and 'read'.
>% limits message size in max bytes;
>% if it can't be said in about 400 lines
>% there's to much yapping, it's a binary
>% or unneeded text is not being snipped
>Score: =-9999
> Bytes: 14700
Score:: =-9999
Bytes: 14700
Lines: 400
Again, two colons on the score line to logically _OR_ the conditions.
Actually, I put an exception for several groups where I know there will
occasionally be some longer posts - such as the monthly posting to
news.announce.newgroups (and news.groups and news.lists.misc) of the
list of sanctioned Big Eight newsgroups (~2310 lines).
>Thanks for your time!!
Glad to be able to help!
Old guy
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