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I am trying this out, its good at getting rid of unwanted stuff but as I
do not use a newsreader much (just this ng) I am finding it difficult to work out the settings, I have managed to get my signature put on but have noticed that it seems to want to chop the person I am responding to signature off! anyone one know why? -- Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and Lapageria rosea |
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In article , Uncle Marvo says...
In reply to Charlie Pridham ) who wrote this in , I, Marvo, say : I am trying this out, its good at getting rid of unwanted stuff but as I do not use a newsreader much (just this ng) I am finding it difficult to work out the settings, I have managed to get my signature put on but have noticed that it seems to want to chop the person I am responding to signature off! anyone one know why? Because it's meant to? OE does that when you install OEQuoteFix, so I'm assuming that it's the status quo. I think you are right. I've had a look in the settings and there are no options to do otherwise. Though it is possible to include the name of the sender at the top of article by adding %n before "says..." There are one or two things I don't like about this newsreader, such as the spell checker being a bit buggy, but overall it is far better than OE. I've managed to eliminate most of the rubbish posted to the group with a few rules, which I'm still refining but essentially include: 1. Delete all messages cross-posted to more than 2 groups. 2. Delete all posts from Privacy.net 3. Delete all posts containing various offensive words / phrases in the body of the message. 4. Use the scoring feature to create a negative score for any messages with the above words anywhere in a posting (subject, body, from, header), then use another rule to delete all posts with a negative score. Once set, it all works automatically and smoothly. -- David in Normandy. |
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Uncle Marvo writes
In reply to Charlie Pridham ) who wrote this in , I, Marvo, say : I am trying this out, its good at getting rid of unwanted stuff but as I do not use a newsreader much (just this ng) I am finding it difficult to work out the settings, I have managed to get my signature put on but have noticed that it seems to want to chop the person I am responding to signature off! anyone one know why? Because it's meant to? OE does that when you install OEQuoteFix, so I'm assuming that it's the status quo. General usenet convention is that you don't quote sigs (after all, the heading at the top of the post usually says who you're responding to) so newsreaders chop them off so you don't have to bother. The mechanics is that the newsreader delineates the sig in a particular way - a 'sig separator' (something like two dashes followed by a space), and when it recognises this configuration in a post being responded to, it deletes everything after that. My sig separator appears to be broke - sorry :-( -- Kay |
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"Uncle Marvo" wrote in message ... In reply to Charlie Pridham ) who wrote this in , I, Marvo, say : I am trying this out, its good at getting rid of unwanted stuff but as I do not use a newsreader much (just this ng) I am finding it difficult to work out the settings, I have managed to get my signature put on but have noticed that it seems to want to chop the person I am responding to signature off! anyone one know why? Because it's meant to? OE does that when you install OEQuoteFix, so I'm assuming that it's the status quo. Where or how does one get OEQuoteFix? |
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In article , Martin says...
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:03:48 +0200, David in Normandy wrote: In article , Uncle Marvo says... In reply to Charlie Pridham ) who wrote this in , I, Marvo, say : I am trying this out, its good at getting rid of unwanted stuff but as I do not use a newsreader much (just this ng) I am finding it difficult to work out the settings, I have managed to get my signature put on but have noticed that it seems to want to chop the person I am responding to signature off! anyone one know why? Because it's meant to? OE does that when you install OEQuoteFix, so I'm assuming that it's the status quo. I think you are right. I've had a look in the settings and there are no options to do otherwise. Though it is possible to include the name of the sender at the top of article by adding %n before "says..." There are one or two things I don't like about this newsreader, such as the spell checker being a bit buggy, but overall it is far better than OE. I've managed to eliminate most of the rubbish posted to the group with a few rules, which I'm still refining but essentially include: 1. Delete all messages cross-posted to more than 2 groups. 2. Delete all posts from Privacy.net Bad move legitimate posters here and elsewhere use privacy.net to prevent spam. Oops! Having looked at a number of troll posts I got the impression it was largely a troll tool to hide their identity / ISP etc. Out of curiosity how does it cut out spam? I just use my ISP to post messages and don't get any spam because I don't put a valid email address in the postings. Why is the extra "security" necessary? -- David in Normandy. |
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In reply to Alan Holmes ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say : "Uncle Marvo" wrote in message ... In reply to Charlie Pridham ) who wrote this in , I, Marvo, say : I am trying this out, its good at getting rid of unwanted stuff but as I do not use a newsreader much (just this ng) I am finding it difficult to work out the settings, I have managed to get my signature put on but have noticed that it seems to want to chop the person I am responding to signature off! anyone one know why? Because it's meant to? OE does that when you install OEQuoteFix, so I'm assuming that it's the status quo. Where or how does one get OEQuoteFix? One Googles http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...&btnG=Sea rch, which then is available for download http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/dl.php?get=OE-QuoteFix And it works. |
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