Sanitised Newsgroup Feeds?

[Paddy]

Hi,
Does anyone do a sanitised newsgroup feed? Something like what mail
filters do for email?

It is getting tedious wading through the ads for 'cracks' & watches;
as well as the Xah cross-posted self-promotions, the wx-'its easier to
post than read the tutorial' annoyances and the castiro (human/Eliza?)
weirdnesses.
I guess that many would want to add the same things to their kill
file, but it takes me three clicks to add anyone/any thread to it and
the c.l.p signal-to-noise is getting lower.

I'd like to thank the posters of the weekly summary - it's great and I
will continue to read it, but It is more fun reading and posting to
Python blog-posts via a Google Reader search, than it is c.l.p

Python popularity is a double-edged sword.

- Paddy.

[Ben Finney]

Re: Sanitised Newsgroup Feeds?

Paddy <paddy3118@goog lemail.comwrite s:

Does anyone do a sanitised newsgroup feed? Something like what mail
filters do for email?

The feature you're looking for is called a "kill list" or "kill file":
add patterns to the kill file, and matching messages will be omitted
from your view of the newsgroup.

Whether your NNTP client supports such a feature is for you to
determine. (I'm pretty sure Google Groups, among its litany of
failings as an NNTP client, is lacking in this aspect too. So, don't
use Google Groups.)

It is getting tedious wading through the ads for 'cracks' & watches;
as well as the Xah cross-posted self-promotions, the wx-'its easier to
post than read the tutorial' annoyances and the castiro (human/Eliza?)
weirdnesses.

Yes, those authors are among the patterns in my GNUS kill file.

I guess that many would want to add the same things to their kill
file, but it takes me three clicks to add anyone/any thread to it
and the c.l.p signal-to-noise is getting lower.

Huh? How often do you have to add patterns to the file? I do it once
every couple of weeks, if that.

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Ben Finney

[Aahz]

Re: Sanitised Newsgroup Feeds?

In article <fd18ede5-f697-4009-bb52-73e0c1d46e91@8g 2000hse.googleg roups.com>,
Paddy <paddy3118@goog lemail.comwrote :

>
>Does anyone do a sanitised newsgroup feed? Something like what mail
>filters do for email?

My ISP (panix.com) is one of the remaining few that still honors netnews
cancels, which results in my seeing a cleaner feed than most people.
Stuff like Xah requires a killfile, though.
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