Another Way Around the Sporge Flood?

I have filtered out messages longer than 20 lines.

Works like a charm.

Now, with my luck, Anthony Ayiomamitis, Daniele Gasparri, Pete
Lawrence, and the other top-dog astrophotographers will jointly publish
a 21-line exposition detailing how even I can produce great
astrophotos.

Davpid

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usenet *at* davidillig dawt com

Does anyone know how to set up a filter in outlook express that will filter
any posts that are cross posted to any other news group? This would get rid
of most of the problem with minimal colateral damage. I have tried
unsuccessfully so far.
Cheers
Terry B

"Davoud" wrote in message
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I have filtered out messages longer than 20 lines.

Works like a charm.

Now, with my luck, Anthony Ayiomamitis, Daniele Gasparri, Pete
Lawrence, and the other top-dog astrophotographers will jointly publish
a 21-line exposition detailing how even I can produce great
astrophotos.

Davpid

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usenet *at* davidillig dawt com

I switched to Xnews a few days ago. It's different than OE but not that
hard to learn if you take a bit of time with it. And you can block anything
that's crossposted. Website is here...

http://xnews.newsguy.com/

..Florian

"Terry B" wrote:

Does anyone know how to set up a filter in outlook express that will filter
any posts that are cross posted to any other news group? This would get rid
of most of the problem with minimal colateral damage. I have tried
unsuccessfully so far.

Yes, see my instructions on that very topic he

"Ed Holden" wrote in message
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"Terry B" wrote:

Does anyone know how to set up a filter in outlook express that will
filter
any posts that are cross posted to any other news group? This would get
rid
of most of the problem with minimal colateral damage. I have tried
unsuccessfully so far.

Yes, see my instructions on that very topic he





Let me add that by following those directions that so far I've been able to
filter out the current round of crap.

Florian wrote:

I switched to Xnews a few days ago. It's different than OE but not that
hard to learn if you take a bit of time with it. And you can block anything
that's crossposted. Website is here...

http://xnews.newsguy.com/

Two things: 1) I use Macs for all Internet stuff. 2) I examined many
sporge msg headers. Quite a few were not cross-posted. The 20-line
limit is working, but see my first post in this thread for the possible
downside.

Davoud

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usenet *at* davidillig dawt com

That might inspire folks to trim quotes, too!

Davoud wrote:
I have filtered out messages longer than 20 lines.

Works like a charm.

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- Dale Gombert (SkySea at aol.com)
122.38W, 47.58N, W. Seattle, WA

"John Nichols" wrote in message
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"Ed Holden" wrote in message
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"Terry B" wrote:

Does anyone know how to set up a filter in outlook express that will
filter
any posts that are cross posted to any other news group? This would get
rid
of most of the problem with minimal colateral damage. I have tried
unsuccessfully so far.

Yes, see my instructions on that very topic he





Let me add that by following those directions that so far I've been able
to filter out the current round of crap.
However, this morning it's back. I think whoever is doing this is reading
our ideas, because this latest round doesn't appear to be crossposted.

On 2007-08-16, John Nichols wrote:

Let me add that by following those directions that so far I've been able
to filter out the current round of crap.
However, this morning it's back. I think whoever is doing this is reading
our ideas, because this latest round doesn't appear to be crossposted.

During the original flood I had a word with news.individual.net - as a
result I'm not seeing this new one, so I only have your word for it that
there even _is_ a flood in progress.

Best 10euros I've ever spent.

Jim
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A piece of wood used to stir paint and thereafter stored uselessly in a shed
in perpetuity.

"Ed Holden" wrote in message
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"Terry B" wrote:

Does anyone know how to set up a filter in outlook express that will
filter
any posts that are cross posted to any other news group? This would get
rid
of most of the problem with minimal colateral damage. I have tried
unsuccessfully so far.

Yes, see my instructions on that very topic he





As I understand the way OE rules work, you also need to check "And stop
processing more rules."

Now, I may be wrong, but -- as I understand the OE rules -- OE applies rules
to incoming messages in the order in which the rule is listed in your list
of rules. If a message is blocked by a rule, that message is then compared
to the next rule, and so on. If the message is approved by any single rule,
that message is passed. However, if you check "And stop processing more
rules," if the message is blocked by a rule, that message is blocked and is
not processed by any further rules.

So -- all my message rules have "And stop processing more rules" checked --
except for one rule that says "Delete from server" in which case "And stop
processing more rules" is not available.