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On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 02:19:15 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:

The message
from martin contains these words:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:04:14 -0000, "Jay"
wrote:

Yes that I'm OK with but what I'd like to do is stop these cross-posted
messages ever arriving in the first place.

You can't.

*YOU* can't. I can.

So can I, but she can't....

unless she downloads Pop3 Scan Mail
--
Martin

OT how to stop cross posted messages
 

from martin contains these words:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:04:14 -0000, "Jay"
wrote:

Yes that I'm OK with but what I'd like to do is stop these
cross-posted messages ever arriving in the first place.


If they are coming from the same regular places.... Outlook express allows a
filter "where the message is on specified news group" you can then either
delete or copy to a "cross posts" folder.

pk

OT how to stop cross posted messages
 

Yes that I'm OK with but what I'd like to do is stop these cross-posted
messages ever arriving in the first place.

Jay


You appear to be paranoid about cross posting. Why? Why not just ignore them
in the first place? Why get all upset and spend so much time getting angry
over them, is there not something more important in your life than worrying
yourself silly over cross posting?


Mike
Om Shanti

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The message
from "PK" contains these words:
from martin contains these words:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:04:14 -0000, "Jay"
wrote:

Yes that I'm OK with but what I'd like to do is stop these
cross-posted messages ever arriving in the first place.


If they are coming from the same regular places.... Outlook express allows a
filter "where the message is on specified news group" you can then either
delete or copy to a "cross posts" folder.

In our KF you just type into the subject field (say) uk:rec:gardening:3
and if the post goes to three or more groups, *ZAP!*

Kill any crosspost using '2' instead of '3', etc. Allow more crossposts
in other groups by increasing that number - dead handy.

posts to u.r.g. here get in if they are crossposted to one other group.
Anything else blunders into a black hole.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

OT how to stop cross posted messages
 

The message
from "Mike" contains these words:

Yes that I'm OK with but what I'd like to do is stop these cross-posted
messages ever arriving in the first place.

Jay


You appear to be paranoid about cross posting. Why? Why not just ignore them
in the first place? Why get all upset and spend so much time getting angry
over them, is there not something more important in your life than worrying
yourself silly over cross posting?

IME the bulk of posts which have been crossposted to three or more
groups are started by malicious trolls, and 'reply to' is often set to
include a target group which the troll feels has slighted him.

Not all crossposted messages fall into this category of course, and
genuine inquiries posted to a number of likely groups is a useful
facility. You can usually tell if you check your KF log: then you can
make an exception and receive that subject.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

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"PK" wrote in message
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from martin contains these words:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:04:14 -0000, "Jay"
wrote:

Yes that I'm OK with but what I'd like to do is stop these
cross-posted messages ever arriving in the first place.


If they are coming from the same regular places.... Outlook express allows
a
filter "where the message is on specified news group" you can then either
delete or copy to a "cross posts" folder.

pk

I have tried using the rules in OE to delete 'junk' postings, but without
success.

One main polluter of this NG is postings from uk.local.yorkshire (I note a
'uk.local.yorkshire.moderated' has appeared).

I have tried to use the rules in OE, but for some reason it only seems to
act on a NG if you are working within the 'uk.local.yorkshire' folder.

i.e.
I have set it to delete if the message is posted to 'uk.local.yorkshire'.
To be able to do this I first had to subscribe to the NG (as you have to
select from the list you are subscribed to).
Now when I download messages to the 'uk.local.yorkshire' folder they are all
deleted, but messages to other NGs which are X-posted to
'uk.local.yorkshire' are not deleted.
So a singularly useless rule!
If I just wanted to delete all 'uk.local.yorkshire messages in that folder,
then why subscribe to the NG anyway?

I will try using another action but I am not hopeful.

I may have to move my NG reading to another tool, but (sadly) I am used to
using OE now and using multiple mail/news tools can be a bit of a pain.

Cheers
Dave R

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"PK" wrote in message
...

from martin contains these words:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:04:14 -0000, "Jay"
wrote:

Yes that I'm OK with but what I'd like to do is stop these
cross-posted messages ever arriving in the first place.


If they are coming from the same regular places.... Outlook express allows
a
filter "where the message is on specified news group" you can then either
delete or copy to a "cross posts" folder.

pk

I have tried using the rules in OE to delete 'junk' postings, but without
success.

One main polluter of this NG is postings from uk.local.yorkshire (I note a
'uk.local.yorkshire.moderated' has appeared).

I have tried to use the rules in OE, but for some reason it only seems to
act on a NG if you are working within the 'uk.local.yorkshire' folder.

i.e.
I have set it to delete if the message is posted to 'uk.local.yorkshire'.
To be able to do this I first had to subscribe to the NG (as you have to
select from the list you are subscribed to).
Now when I download messages to the 'uk.local.yorkshire' folder they are all
deleted, but messages to other NGs which are X-posted to
'uk.local.yorkshire' are not deleted.
So a singularly useless rule!
If I just wanted to delete all 'uk.local.yorkshire messages in that folder,
then why subscribe to the NG anyway?

I will try using another action but I am not hopeful.

I may have to move my NG reading to another tool, but (sadly) I am used to
using OE now and using multiple mail/news tools can be a bit of a pain.

Cheers
Dave R