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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 23:03:51 +0000
Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware
Comments: This message was transferred to Usenet via mail2news gateway at
<mail2news@neodome.net>. Please send questions and concerns to
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Subject: freeware newsreader w/ filtering
From: nobody@yamn.paranoici.org (D)
Message-ID: <20230831.230351.5834c3ad@yamn.paranoici.org>
 by: D - Thu, 31 Aug 2023 23:03 UTC

by now, most a.c.f. subscribers have set their favorite newsreader(s)
to automatically filter out all googlespam & pointless x-posted junk,
but for those not using a newsreader with scoring features to demote/
delete googlespam and x-posts, 40tude Dialog is easy to setup and use.
40tude Dialog version 2.0.15.84 (4d2b38.exe, 3.8 MB) is an "oldie but
goodie"(dialog.exe, 7 Feb 2005) but it works great on Windows 11/7/XP
and works especially well with Omnimix using Tor for maximum security:
https://download.freedownloadmanager.org/Windows-PC/40tude-Dialog/FREE.html
https://www.danner-net.de/om.htm
https://www.torproject.org/

scoring is easy: to filter "googlegroups" and "x-post" spam, connect
to your favorite newsserver using Omnimix w/tor on "localhost", user
and password "omnimix"; get grouplist, subscribe <alt.comp.freeware>,
retrieve 100s of headers, set "Scoring and actions" syntax to demote
googlegroups to -9999, xpost to -9998, and set colors to darken them:

[*]
-9999 Message-ID googlegroups.com
-9999 References googlegroups.com
!setcolor(olive;gray) Message-ID googlegroups.com
!setcolor(gray;olive) References googlegroups.com
!ignore Message-ID googlegroups.com
-9998 Xpost %>2
!setcolor(purple;maroon) Xpost %>2

then in "Group" menu, click "Apply scoring and actions on selected groups";
40tude Dialog "Help"[F1], "Scoring/Actions Syntax" explains how this works:
>Scoring and actions is one of Dialog's most powerful features. The syntax
>and actually most of the code is from Jurgen Haible's excellent local mail-
>and newsserver Hamster.
>What is Scoring?
>Scoring is the process of assigning a number between -9999 and +9999 to a
>message by applying scoring rules to the message. A scoring rule usually
>analyzes one header field of the message and if it this header field matches
>a certain text, a score value is assigned. For example, you can create a
>scoring rule that assign the highest score value +9999 to all messages that
>have your email address in the From header field, so that your messages
>always receive a score of +9999.
>The score value is shown in the header list in green for positive scores
>and in red for negative scores:
>Note that the list of headers can be sorted by score (with or without
>threading), so scoring can be used to visually organize and separate
>important from unimportant messages...."
[end quote]

adding additional scoring rules may be desirable in some newsgroups,
but simply ignoring articles/threads by pressing "i" probably works
better for most users, and keeps the "filters.dat" file compact and
simple; "googlespam" has flooded many busy newsgroups besides a.c.f.,
so simply using "!delete" instead of "!ignore" all googlegroups.com
articles is surest way to eliminate it altogether, but scoring them
"-9999" is more fun, and shows how much googlespam is being demoted;
the recent x-posted spam flood apparently originating from server(s)
other than "googlegroups.com" is also cross-posted very haphazardly.


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