Re: Filter question.

On 01/17/12 at 07:51am, Urs Janßen wrote:
> In <20120117050538.GA2125@mint>,
>     Christian Dysthe wrote:
> > I am relatively new to tin filtering. I am not able to understand the 
> > difference between 'msgid_full', 'msgid_only and 'msgid_last'. Could 
> > someone please explain what the difference is? I've read the 'filtering 
> > in tin' overview, but I'm still not getting it.
> 
> Every article has a uniq identifier: its Messsage-ID and if the article
> belongs to a "thread" it has at least one parent whose Message-ID
> should be noted in the References: line. The References header can
> hold multiple identifiers of parents in chronological order.
> 
> tin can filter on the following 
> 
> msgid=pattern       Message-Id: *AND* full References:
> -> matches the current article or any of it's precursor in the thread
> 
> msgid_last=pattern  Message-Id: and last Reference:s entry only
> -> matches the current article or it's direct precursor in the thread
> 
> msgid_only=pattern  Message-Id:
> -> matches only the current article
> 
> refs_only=pattern   References: line (e.g. <[email protected]>) without Message-Id:
> -> matches only any precursor in the thread but not the current article
> 
> HTH,
> urs

Thanks! That really helped. One additional question. Most often I want to 
add a kill or hot filter on a certain poster. I would use his e-mail/nym 
and the part of the msgid that doesn't change. It is possible to add such 
a filter interactively, or do I have to edit my filter file?

> -- 
> Jef Poskanzer:
> "When people aren't stupid Usenet is even more useful. Too bad this happens
>  so rarely."
> 

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//Christian Dysthe

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