I've more than once tried to set up a "delete on receipt" rule for
messages whose "From" line contains certain groups. It doesn't work.
Is this because I'm doing something wrong, or because it's another
one of those M$ features which don't work for anybody?

--
Mike.

I've more than once tried to set up a "delete on receipt" rule for
messages whose "From" line contains certain groups. It doesn't work.
Is this because I'm doing something wrong, or because it's another
one of those M$ features which don't work for anybody?

--
Mike.
Have you tried weedkiller :-)

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:33:41 +0000 (UTC), "tab"
wrote:


I've more than once tried to set up a "delete on receipt" rule for
messages whose "From" line contains certain groups. It doesn't work.
Is this because I'm doing something wrong, or because it's another
one of those M$ features which don't work for anybody?

--
Mike.
Have you tried weedkiller :-)


Isn't life too short for these ******s moaning about their ****ing
filters. Wish they would **** off and bore someone else.

John wrote:
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:33:41 +0000 (UTC), "tab"
wrote:


I've more than once tried to set up a "delete on receipt" rule for
messages whose "From" line contains certain groups. It doesn't work.
Is this because I'm doing something wrong, or because it's another
one of those M$ features which don't work for anybody?

--
Mike.
Have you tried weedkiller :-)


Isn't life too short for these ******s moaning about their ****ing
filters. Wish they would **** off and bore someone else.

Mind the Rule.
--
ah fait loucher un bon oeil

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 22:21:41 +0100, John wrote:

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:33:41 +0000 (UTC), "tab"
wrote:


I've more than once tried to set up a "delete on receipt" rule for
messages whose "From" line contains certain groups. It doesn't work.
Is this because I'm doing something wrong, or because it's another
one of those M$ features which don't work for anybody?

--
Mike.
Have you tried weedkiller :-)


Isn't life too short for these ******s moaning about their ****ing
filters. Wish they would **** off and bore someone else.

Is the 'Ignore Thread' option too difficult for you to understand. I
guess so judging from your command of the language. Simply sad.

Andy

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 07:06:35 +0100, Andy Pandy
wrote:

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 22:21:41 +0100, John wrote:

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:33:41 +0000 (UTC), "tab"
wrote:


I've more than once tried to set up a "delete on receipt" rule for
messages whose "From" line contains certain groups. It doesn't work.
Is this because I'm doing something wrong, or because it's another
one of those M$ features which don't work for anybody?

--
Mike.
Have you tried weedkiller :-)


Isn't life too short for these ******s moaning about their ****ing
filters. Wish they would **** off and bore someone else.

Is the 'Ignore Thread' option too difficult for you to understand. I
guess so judging from your command of the language. Simply sad.

Andy

We feed on PLONKas, why the **** would we want to ignore you?

PLONK

In message , Mike Lyle
writes
I've more than once tried to set up a "delete on receipt" rule for
messages whose "From" line contains certain groups. It doesn't work.

From: header lines don't contain groups, so that's to be expected.
--
Ian Cummings

Ian Cummings wrote:
In message , Mike Lyle
writes
I've more than once tried to set up a "delete on receipt" rule for
messages whose "From" line contains certain groups. It doesn't
work.

From: header lines don't contain groups, so that's to be expected.

OK, what OE offers is "Where message is on specified newsgroup". And
it doesn't work. But I imagine you knew I meant that. So what do you
suggest I do?

--
Mike.

In message , Mike Lyle
writes
Ian Cummings wrote:
In message , Mike Lyle
writes

I've more than once tried to set up a "delete on receipt" rule for
messages whose "From" line contains certain groups. It doesn't
work.

From: header lines don't contain groups, so that's to be expected.

OK, what OE offers is "Where message is on specified newsgroup".

Ah - that's not the From: header line.

And
it doesn't work. But I imagine you knew I meant that.

I know what you want to do, yes.

I read your words, noted that what you wrote won't to what you want, and
said so.

So what do you
suggest I do?

Do you have any other rules that might be somehow overriding that one ?
Does the rule work if you modify it to (say) move matching articles to
another folder, rather than delete them ?
I've seen suggestions that you may need to finish the rule with a "stop
processing rules".
I've seen it said that what you want is only possible (with OE) if the
groups are subscribed !!!

But I don't use OE myself...

I suggest you take a look at the many OE related websites -
URL:http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com for example - or ask in a
specialist OE newsgroup.

Regards,
--
Ian Cummings

Ian Cummings wrote:
[...]
Do you have any other rules that might be somehow overriding that
one
? Does the rule work if you modify it to (say) move matching
articles
to another folder, rather than delete them ?
I've seen suggestions that you may need to finish the rule with a
"stop processing rules".
I've seen it said that what you want is only possible (with OE) if
the
groups are subscribed !!!

But I don't use OE myself...

I suggest you take a look at the many OE related websites -
URL:http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com for example - or ask in a
specialist OE newsgroup.

Thanks. I'll look into those angles. (And, yes, OE's clunky way of
blocking messages from specified groups _does_ require you to
subscribe and then instruct the program to delete all messages from
them. My suspicion at present is that it actually carries out the
instruction only for messages _originating_ from the specified group.
OE is of no interest to M$.)

--
Mike.

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:35:55 +0100, "Mike Lyle"
wrote:



Thanks. I'll look into those angles. (And, yes, OE's clunky way of
blocking messages from specified groups _does_ require you to
subscribe and then instruct the program to delete all messages from
them. My suspicion at present is that it actually carries out the
instruction only for messages _originating_ from the specified group.
OE is of no interest to M$.)

Mike, I've been interested by your posts and am obviously missing the
point. What is the purpose of subscribing to a group and then deleting
the messages ? I have even set up OE again to see how it functions -
I use Agent - and the rule works if you, for example set the messages
to be a certain colour, but are only deleted if you access the rule
and click on ' Apply now ' when it works.

I suspect it is just a quirk, to avoid having a separate list of
instructions, simply for Newsgroups.

Andy

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:50:15 +0100, Mike Lyle wrote:

I've more than once tried to set up a "delete on receipt" rule for
messages whose "From" line contains certain groups. It doesn't work.
Is this because I'm doing something wrong, or because it's another
one of those M$ features which don't work for anybody?

I have a ruleset which works for 'uk.rec.yorkshire' (which used to be a
source of idiot X-posts).

"Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the message is on uk.local.yorkshire newsgroup
Delete it "

I am now just starting out with Pan because of the much better rule set.

However I have found it a little fragile under Windows; it seems rock
solid under Linux.

HTH
Dave R

David W.E. Roberts wrote:
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:50:15 +0100, Mike Lyle wrote:

I've more than once tried to set up a "delete on receipt" rule for
messages whose "From" line contains certain groups. It doesn't
work.
Is this because I'm doing something wrong, or because it's another
one of those M$ features which don't work for anybody?

I have a ruleset which works for 'uk.rec.yorkshire' (which used to
be
a source of idiot X-posts).

"Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the message is on uk.local.yorkshire newsgroup
Delete it "

I am now just starting out with Pan because of the much better rule
set.

However I have found it a little fragile under Windows; it seems
rock
solid under Linux.

That's exactly what I've been doing, without the required result. I'm
using WinXP Home. Demon.local is one of the groups I've blocked, and
I duly get an empty screen if I click on demon.local in the OE
folders list; but messages cross-posted there still appear in the
newsgroups I read.

Do you think there's anything in my speculation that the system is
blocking only messages which _originated_ in the blocked group? I
haven't got any trolls on the screen at present, so I can't readily
check for that.

--
Mike.

In message , Mike Lyle
writes

Do you think there's anything in my speculation that the system is
blocking only messages which _originated_ in the blocked group?

I doubt it - you'll just get an article with one or more groups in the
Newsgroups: header. There's no way of telling which group the poster was
reading when s/he initiated the reply.
--
Ian Cummings