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From: Hadron 
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Wanting to change from XP to Ubuntu and keep using Turnpike
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 14:43:33 +0100
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Bernard Peek  writes:

> 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.

gnus does all this and more. It takes some learning though - its not for
the faint hearted.
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