Re: Setting up a "Kill Filter"

2003-06-15 Thread Bill McCarthy
On Sun 15-Jun-03 6:31am -0400, Allie Martin wrote: > However, when you configure a filter to search > String: > Source: Sender > Presence: Yes/No > the filter actually searches the From header. The From header isn't > altered by the list server, so it contains the

Re[2]: Setting up a "Kill Filter"

2003-06-15 Thread Bob Morris
G'day neurowerx, Sunday, June 15, 2003, 6:01:23 PM, you wrote: nwd> You should check the kludges for "FROM: " then, shouldn't you? Thanks - that solved the problem. I knew there had to be a way but I was too dense to see it. -- Bob Mo®®is Sunday, 15 June 2003 Using The Bat! v1.62r on Win

Re: Setting up a "Kill Filter"

2003-06-15 Thread Allie Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob Morris, [BM] wrote: BM> Unfortunately I found that the kill filter failed to work in the BM> real world (as opposed to testing on old messages already BM> downloaded) because I was basing it on the person I wanted to block BM> being listed in the

Re: Setting up a "Kill Filter"

2003-06-15 Thread neurowerx
15-Jun-2003 09:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Unfortunately I found that the kill filter failed to work in the real > world (as opposed to testing on old messages already downloaded) > because I was basing it on the person I wanted to block being listed > in the "Sender" string. It appears that a

Re[2]: Setting up a "Kill Filter"

2003-06-15 Thread Bob Morris
G'day Allie, Saturday, June 14, 2003, 10:07:43 PM, you wrote some very useful advice. Bill and Joel also provided some valuable guidance which I also appreciated. Thanks guys. Unfortunately I found that the kill filter failed to work in the real world (as opposed to testing on old messages alr

Re[2]: Setting up a "Kill Filter"

2003-06-14 Thread Joel Johnstone
Bill, Saturday, June 14, 2003, 5:23:08 AM, you wrote: BM> Since you've selected Regex, enter the offenders' addresses with a '|' BM> separating each address. So if you want to 'kill' [EMAIL PROTECTED] and BM> [EMAIL PROTECTED], you would type: [EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED] As it turns ou

Re: Setting up a "Kill Filter"

2003-06-14 Thread Joel Johnstone
Bob, Saturday, June 14, 2003, 4:39:00 AM, you wrote: BM> This filter appears to work fine, but is there any neater and more BM> flexible way to set up a "kill filter" without setting up a BM> separate individual filter for each offender? You can separate multiple strings with the pipe | characte

Re: Setting up a "Kill Filter"

2003-06-14 Thread Bill McCarthy
On Sat 14-Jun-03 7:39am -0400, Bob Morris wrote: > Until now I have not felt any need to apply a kill filter, but after > the recent spate of aggressive posts from one poster I want to > exclude him from the material I read. Well, I'm fairly new hear too, but I've found that everyone here is very

Re: Setting up a "Kill Filter"

2003-06-14 Thread Allie Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob Morris, [BM] wrote: BM> OPTIONS BM> Continue processing with other filters BM> Regular expressions I don't see the need to enable this option. Aren't you just doing a simple string match? BM> This filter appears to work fine, but is there any

Setting up a "Kill Filter"

2003-06-14 Thread Bob Morris
G'day TBUDL Members, I am using The Bat! v1.62r on Windows 98 4.10 Build A I am used to reading my news group messages in a dedicated newsreader (Forte Agent) which gives me the ability to quickly and easily "kill filter" any objectionable poster by clicking a button and then specifying how