[Pan-users] Re: Re: Trying to filer out cross posting in Pan 0.132

[Tony Sivori]

On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:17:05 +1000, Lin wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Tony Sivori wrote:
>> On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:41:49 +1000, Lin wrote:
>> >
>> > %BOS
>> > [^*$]
>> > Score:: =-9999
>> > %Xref: (.*,){3}
>> > Newsgroups: (.*,){3,}
>>
>> What would this filter do? Kill anything cross posted to 3 or more
>> groups?
> 
> Yes that is exactly what it does.

Thanks for that.

> The top bit tells Pan to apply this filter to all newsgroups.  The third
> tells Pan to kill the 3 or more groups.

So that's the proper way. I've always used a less direct method for all
groups filtering (such as filtering a troll from all groups); any group
that does not contain "ZZZ". I always thought of it as putting the
trolls and spammers to sleep.   :-)

-- 
Tony Sivori
Due to spam, I'm filtering all Google Groups posters.