Re: [Pan-users] The usage of rules and filters

[Jeff Vian]

JC wrote:

>    Could anybody PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE explain how
> to use rules and filters under Pan 0.14.2? Or any
> other version, at that - I have been trying to coerce
> Pan into doing some filtering for me for years now,
> and the only thing consistent about its behavior in
> this respect is that it is predictably erratic.
>
>    I have defined the following filter:
>
> ALL OF:
>    Author contains "bozo1"
>    Author contains "bozo2"
>  
This will not likely work.   A post cannot ususally have 2 authors.

I think you mean

ANY OF:
   Author contains "bozo1"
   Author contains "bozo2"



>    This I call "Master Filter", and I have ticked the
> "Show in the Filter Menu" box.
>
>    Additionally, I have a rule called "Bozos". This
> rule applies to all the groups I am subscribed to, and
> I made sure I ticked the "Apply to incoming" box. The
> associated filter is the Master Filter above, and the
> only selected action is "Delete article".
>
>     With this, my expectation was that when
> downloading articles for any of the groups I
> subscribe, I would never ever get to see articles
> posted by bozo1 or bozo2. However, much to my dismay,
> those articles are still there :-(
>
>    I then noticed that, under the Filter drop down
> menu, the Master Filter box was not ticked. So I tick
> it, and then all articles disappear. I tried to change
> ALL OF to ANY OF and, much to my utmost annoyance, all
> articles are removed EXCEPT those by bozo1 and bozo2.
Since you want to see all posts EXCEPT those matched by the above rule, 
negate the rule.


>   This is driving me nuts. Even worse, the behavior
> described above is not entirely predictable; sometimes
> (seldom) things seem to work the way they are supposed
> to. 
>
>    Am I doing something completely stupid, which is
> what causes the puzzling behavior I am reporting? Or
> is the filtering code in Pan not yet ready for prime
> time? Notice that my requirements are very simple: I
> just want for articles posted by bozo1 or bozo2 to be
> deleted automatically for me when downloading the
> headers, so that I don't even get to see those
> headers. If the filter/rule combination is not used
> they way I described to achieve this goal, how is it
> used?
>
>    Any help will be very much appreciated.
>
>
>
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