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   Daniel70 to All   
   Re: Filter Problem   
   13 Aug 25 22:30:23   
   
   From: daniel47@somewhere.someplaceelse   
      
   On 12/08/2025 8:55 pm, Daniel70 wrote:   
   > On 12/08/2025 6:06 pm, R Daneel Olivaw wrote:   
   >> Daniel70 wrote:   
   >>> In one of my UseNet NG's, one of the posters was annoying me .... so   
   >>> I filtered on their NYM and set the filter to 'Delete' ..... and Good   
   >>> Bye for about five weeks until today when he has changed his Nym to   
   >>> his name.   
   >>>   
   >>> So I thought I'd alter the Filter to kill-file him using the bit   
   >>> after the '@' ..... but I found that I had already added a second   
   >>> line on his Filter entry to Delete any messages from his >> the '@'> server.   
   >>>   
   >>> Do Filters not filter on the server portion ... or do I have to have   
   >>> the username before the '@' in the Filter name as well as the server   
   >>> name??   
   >>   
   >> Filters default to "Match all of the following" although the only   
   >> times I have ever kept that setting is when there was only one line in   
   >> the filter.  You *do* have "Match any of the following" set?   
   >   
   > Bingo. I had the Filters screen set to the Default "Match all of the   
   > following" which, initially, worked ..... but, now that one of the three   
   > conditions has been changed, the filter cannot work.   
   >   
   > I've adjusted it to "Match any of the following".   
   >   
   > Let's see if that fixes things. ;-P (maybe not tonight, as I've already   
   > downloaded the message numbers, but let's see!!)   
      
   Yeap, that's fixed my problem. ;-)   
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   Daniel70   
      
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