[leafnode-list] Re: filtering crossposts

Lloyd Zusman ljz at asfast.com
Sun Jul 23 22:06:49 CEST 2006


Amedee Van Gasse <amedee at amedee.be>
writes:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to filter messages that are crossposted between certain
> groups, but not the groups themselves.
> With an example: I want to see posts that go to be.comp.os.linux OR to
> be.comp.os.windows, but I don't want to see posts that are crossposted
> between them (because these are almost always inflamatory...)
>
> I suppose I need to cast some arcane regex-runes to accomplish this, but
> my regex-fu is rather weak. Could someone please help? I only need a
> good example to get started.
>
> Anyway, thanks for your attention.

Will the following work for you?

Put this into your filters file:

  newsgroups = ^be\.comp\.os\.(linux|windows)$
  maxcrosspost = 1
  action = kill



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