In Doug Freyburger
wrote:

Bert wrote:

I kill all thread-starting or stand-alone posts from google, but
allow followups.

Maybe you could do the same for gardenbanter.

Are you willing to post your rule? I see you post with Xnews. I may
be able to translate it for XPN which I use.

Su

Sco =-9999 #Google Group threads
Message-ID: googlegroups
~References: .

Matches if:

Message-ID contains "googlegroups"
and
there's nothing in the "References:" header

(meaning it's not a followup to an earlier post in the same thread).

Xnews uses regular expressions in the filter, so

"References: ."

means "match if there's anything in the References: header."

Prefixing the rule with '~' negates it, so it matches only if there's
nothing in the References: header.

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