Re: Killfile

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Urs Janßen wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 06:57:27PM +0200, Niklaus Kuehnis wrote:
>> How can I killfile someone by e-mail address?
>>
>> I habe this in my filter file:
>> ---------------------------
>> group=some.news.group
>> case=0
>> score=kill
>> from=*[email protected]*
>> ---------------------------
>>
>> and I still get posts from [email protected] posted to
>> some.news.group.
>>
>> What now?
>
> fist of all: don't obfustidcate your killfile, post your _real_ killfile
> entry and give the Message-ID of an article which doesn't get killed.
>
> check if you use wildmat or regexp filtering (tinrc-var wildmat), the obove
> entry looks like a wildmat

Yes, wildcard=0

> check if the address in the From line in the posting is all loercase (you
> have case sensitive matching on)
>
> check if you don't have any other rule in the filtefile which lifts your
> rule

OK. I emptied my filter file and only left the above rule in it. Also 
I chose "Kill all arts and never show" in the Options Menu. This 
seems to have settled my problem. I will come back here if filtering 
seems to be ineffective again.

Another question regarding filtering: Can I filter for newsgroups I 
haven't subscribed to? E.g. filter out messages crossposted to 
comp.os.linux.advocacy while reading alt.os.linux.ubuntu? 
The following doesn't seem to work:

group=*comp.os.linux.advocacy*
case=0
score=kill

Thanks!

Niklaus