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Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 20:27:04 +0000
From: Bernard Peek 
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Wanting to change from XP to Ubuntu and keep using Turnpike
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In message , SINNER 
<99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.invalid> writes
>* David Floyd wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:
>> In message of Fri, 2 Mar 2007, SINNER writes
>
>[...]
>
>>>> Bernard Peek listed most of the features. It seems you been asleep.
>
>>>It seems you need a lesson on Usenet.
>
>>>1) Usenet is NOT an immediate medium.
>>>2) Propogation of posts may or may not make it to the server I read from
>>>3) he posted the list as a result of MY POST, prior to that, you've all
>>>been claiming a bunch of hooey with nothing to back it up.
>
>> You need a lesson in politeness.  Since you don't comprehend politeness
>> I retort that you (wanker), are in my kill file (because I use Turnpike
>> and am able to do so), so there is no point in replying to me.
>
>So, does TP kill on nym or a combo of addy and nym? I was not impolite,
>and I am not avoiding your KF intentionally. I use different identities
>in my Windows newsreader of choice than I do from my Linux reader of
>choice.

One of the annoying things about closed-source programs is that you 
can't be sure what it does. TP appears to killfile authors based on the 
entire address line, so changing either will avoid it. You can also 
create custom kill rules based on regexp matching against any header 
line. It can also kill complete threads, individual articles or subject 
lines.

In a thread it's possible to select a message and break the thread at 
that point. The selected message becomes the parent of a new thread, 
effectively splitting the thread into two. Kill rules then affect the 
two threads separately. So if a thread topic wanders in one subthread 
you can kill that without affecting a different subthread you want to 
continue with.

It also supports similar filtering for email. It's possible to set up a 
kill rule that will reject emails from a specific individual or domain, 
or by matching arbitrary regexps. So for instance I have a rejection 
rule set up to automatically reject any mail with a .EXE file as an 
attachment.



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Bernard Peek
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