Newsreader filter suggestion using regex (regular expression)
 

In case anyone cares (I do) about the readability and usability of this
NG, I have a suggestion.

I am a long time lurker whose girlfriend has a TJ. But the bill/goat
goat/bill posts are absurd and prevent me from showing her the very
group that is relevant to her.

I have a mac and use MT-NewsWatcher which allows me to filter and kill
posts based on a regex. You can research this easily, regex is an old
pattern matching utility UNIX guys use.

After a while of tinkering I have come up with a way to filter any
combination of bill and goat in the subject line, without filtering out
anything useful.

Add these lines to your filters:
kill if 'subject' matches the regular expression "^.*bill.*goat.*$"
kill if 'subject' matches the regular expression "^.*goat.*bill.*$"

Of course you can use other methods, but this is my favorite. I'm sure
other readers use different filters and wildcards, but I have come to
appreciate regex.

Thanks for your time. This may be old news, but I couldn't find anything
in a search of the NG.

--
There is no god, only Man.

Of course, my email address is not real.

Re: Newsreader filter suggestion using regex (regular expression)
 

George wrote:
> In case anyone cares (I do) about the readability and usability of
> this NG, I have a suggestion.

> I have a mac and use MT-NewsWatcher which allows me to filter and kill
> posts based on a regex.

> Add these lines to your filters:
> kill if 'subject' matches the regular expression "^.*bill.*goat.*$"
> kill if 'subject' matches the regular expression "^.*goat.*bill.*$"

Yep.

For those of you that don't, you can also filter using either nFilter
(old) or Hamster. The filtering above is similar to what nFilter does.

The easiest way to eliminate this crap is to simply drop any article
posted to more than two groups.

--
DougW

Re: Newsreader filter suggestion using regex (regular expression)
 

George wrote:
> In case anyone cares (I do) about the readability and usability of
> this NG, I have a suggestion.

> I have a mac and use MT-NewsWatcher which allows me to filter and kill
> posts based on a regex.

> Add these lines to your filters:
> kill if 'subject' matches the regular expression "^.*bill.*goat.*$"
> kill if 'subject' matches the regular expression "^.*goat.*bill.*$"

Yep.

For those of you that don't, you can also filter using either nFilter
(old) or Hamster. The filtering above is similar to what nFilter does.

The easiest way to eliminate this crap is to simply drop any article
posted to more than two groups.

--
DougW

Re: Newsreader filter suggestion using regex (regular expression)
 

George wrote:
> In case anyone cares (I do) about the readability and usability of
> this NG, I have a suggestion.

> I have a mac and use MT-NewsWatcher which allows me to filter and kill
> posts based on a regex.

> Add these lines to your filters:
> kill if 'subject' matches the regular expression "^.*bill.*goat.*$"
> kill if 'subject' matches the regular expression "^.*goat.*bill.*$"

Yep.

For those of you that don't, you can also filter using either nFilter
(old) or Hamster. The filtering above is similar to what nFilter does.

The easiest way to eliminate this crap is to simply drop any article
posted to more than two groups.

--
DougW

Re: Newsreader filter suggestion using regex (regular expression)
 

George wrote:
> In case anyone cares (I do) about the readability and usability of
> this NG, I have a suggestion.

> I have a mac and use MT-NewsWatcher which allows me to filter and kill
> posts based on a regex.

> Add these lines to your filters:
> kill if 'subject' matches the regular expression "^.*bill.*goat.*$"
> kill if 'subject' matches the regular expression "^.*goat.*bill.*$"

Yep.

For those of you that don't, you can also filter using either nFilter
(old) or Hamster. The filtering above is similar to what nFilter does.

The easiest way to eliminate this crap is to simply drop any article
posted to more than two groups.

--
DougW

Re: Newsreader filter suggestion using regex (regular expression)
 

DougW proclaimed:

> George wrote:
>
>>In case anyone cares (I do) about the readability and usability of
>>this NG, I have a suggestion.
>
>
>>I have a mac and use MT-NewsWatcher which allows me to filter and kill
>>posts based on a regex.
>
>
>>Add these lines to your filters:
>>kill if 'subject' matches the regular expression "^.*bill.*goat.*$"
>>kill if 'subject' matches the regular expression "^.*goat.*bill.*$"
>
>
> Yep.
>
> For those of you that don't, you can also filter using either nFilter
> (old) or Hamster. The filtering above is similar to what nFilter does.
>
> The easiest way to eliminate this crap is to simply drop any article
> posted to more than two groups.
>
Might be useful to take up a collection and buy a certain old jackass
and his girlfriend and their goat a hotel room, then lock them inside
and burn down the hotel....

Re: Newsreader filter suggestion using regex (regular expression)
 

DougW proclaimed:

> George wrote:
>
>>In case anyone cares (I do) about the readability and usability of
>>this NG, I have a suggestion.
>
>
>>I have a mac and use MT-NewsWatcher which allows me to filter and kill
>>posts based on a regex.
>
>
>>Add these lines to your filters:
>>kill if 'subject' matches the regular expression "^.*bill.*goat.*$"
>>kill if 'subject' matches the regular expression "^.*goat.*bill.*$"
>
>
> Yep.
>
> For those of you that don't, you can also filter using either nFilter
> (old) or Hamster. The filtering above is similar to what nFilter does.
>
> The easiest way to eliminate this crap is to simply drop any article
> posted to more than two groups.
>
Might be useful to take up a collection and buy a certain old jackass
and his girlfriend and their goat a hotel room, then lock them inside
and burn down the hotel....

Re: Newsreader filter suggestion using regex (regular expression)
 

DougW proclaimed:

> George wrote:
>
>>In case anyone cares (I do) about the readability and usability of
>>this NG, I have a suggestion.
>
>
>>I have a mac and use MT-NewsWatcher which allows me to filter and kill
>>posts based on a regex.
>
>
>>Add these lines to your filters:
>>kill if 'subject' matches the regular expression "^.*bill.*goat.*$"
>>kill if 'subject' matches the regular expression "^.*goat.*bill.*$"
>
>
> Yep.
>
> For those of you that don't, you can also filter using either nFilter
> (old) or Hamster. The filtering above is similar to what nFilter does.
>
> The easiest way to eliminate this crap is to simply drop any article
> posted to more than two groups.
>
Might be useful to take up a collection and buy a certain old jackass
and his girlfriend and their goat a hotel room, then lock them inside
and burn down the hotel....

Re: Newsreader filter suggestion using regex (regular expression)
 

DougW proclaimed:

> George wrote:
>
>>In case anyone cares (I do) about the readability and usability of
>>this NG, I have a suggestion.
>
>
>>I have a mac and use MT-NewsWatcher which allows me to filter and kill
>>posts based on a regex.
>
>
>>Add these lines to your filters:
>>kill if 'subject' matches the regular expression "^.*bill.*goat.*$"
>>kill if 'subject' matches the regular expression "^.*goat.*bill.*$"
>
>
> Yep.
>
> For those of you that don't, you can also filter using either nFilter
> (old) or Hamster. The filtering above is similar to what nFilter does.
>
> The easiest way to eliminate this crap is to simply drop any article
> posted to more than two groups.
>
Might be useful to take up a collection and buy a certain old jackass
and his girlfriend and their goat a hotel room, then lock them inside
and burn down the hotel....

Re: Newsreader filter suggestion using regex (regular expression)
 

George wrote:
> In case anyone cares (I do) about the readability and usability of this
> NG, I have a suggestion.
>
> I am a long time lurker whose girlfriend has a TJ. But the bill/goat
> goat/bill posts are absurd and prevent me from showing her the very
> group that is relevant to her.
>
> I have a mac and use MT-NewsWatcher which allows me to filter and kill
> posts based on a regex. You can research this easily, regex is an old
> pattern matching utility UNIX guys use.
>
> After a while of tinkering I have come up with a way to filter any
> combination of bill and goat in the subject line, without filtering out
> anything useful.
>
> Add these lines to your filters:
> kill if 'subject' matches the regular expression "^.*bill.*goat.*$"
> kill if 'subject' matches the regular expression "^.*goat.*bill.*$"
>
> Of course you can use other methods, but this is my favorite. I'm sure
> other readers use different filters and wildcards, but I have come to
> appreciate regex.
>
> Thanks for your time. This may be old news, but I couldn't find anything
> in a search of the NG.
>

Thank you george. I'm using Thunderbird, so I'll have to figure it out,
but there's so much of those two morons and their pissing match that I
can't handle it anymore. The sad part is that I think both of them can
make valuable contributions to the NG, but neither of them have the
discipline to stop. Very immature on both sides, and the whole NG pays
the price.