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pothead wrote:

On 2026-09-23, Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> wrote:

pothead wrote:

This is what I have in my slrn scorefile to squash the snit roach.

Unfortunately, my agent is VERY weak in the filter dept. It can't score,
regex/wildcard, much less do /anything/ about the body.

If I wanted some power, I would put a little news server between me and
my NSP, such as leafnode.

As it is, I'm left to manually/optically ignore anything to or about it;
and so I open some msg, if I see that word, I just move on ignoring.
Sometimes if there is a persona who only wants to talk to or about that,
I filter them too, as their content isn't going to be worth even seeing.

Interesting.
I haven't looked at TB in years. Last time I tried it, under Linux, it seemed very rough
around the edges to me.
My impression was that TB was a mail client, an excellent one at that, which had Usenet
support kind of grafted on to it.
I've been an slrn user for decades and I emphasis the word USER as I learn something new
every day.
Initially, many years ago on dial up, i used slrnpull to create a local spool. It was
Marek Novotny who clued me in regarding leafnode and he helped me set that up so I could
filter at the spool level.
When broadband was finally available in my location this was no longer needed unless one
would like to keep logs of posts and so forth, which I do not need.
Currently deep sixing snit, % the bot posts (snit) and so forth is trivial under slrn and
from what I know should be equally trivial under pan as well but I have no experience
with pan so this is from what I have read.
And when a new sock appears, it's a couple of keystrokes to send the sock to the -9999
file forever.

If you like CLI apps, slrn rocks!

never listen to anything pothead says
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On Sep 24, 2026 at 4:00:53rC>PM MST, "%" wrote <sXWdnSiDlrA7Nij3nZ2dnZfqnPGdnZ2d@giganews.com>:

pothead wrote:

On 2026-09-23, Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> wrote:

pothead wrote:

This is what I have in my slrn scorefile to squash the snit roach.

Unfortunately, my agent is VERY weak in the filter dept. It can't score, >>> regex/wildcard, much less do /anything/ about the body.

If I wanted some power, I would put a little news server between me and
my NSP, such as leafnode.

As it is, I'm left to manually/optically ignore anything to or about it; >>> and so I open some msg, if I see that word, I just move on ignoring.
Sometimes if there is a persona who only wants to talk to or about that, >>> I filter them too, as their content isn't going to be worth even seeing. >>>

Interesting.
I haven't looked at TB in years. Last time I tried it, under Linux, it seemed
very rough
around the edges to me.
My impression was that TB was a mail client, an excellent one at that, which >> had Usenet
support kind of grafted on to it.
I've been an slrn user for decades and I emphasis the word USER as I learn >> something new
every day.
Initially, many years ago on dial up, i used slrnpull to create a local
spool. It was
Marek Novotny who clued me in regarding leafnode and he helped me set that up
so I could
filter at the spool level.
When broadband was finally available in my location this was no longer needed
unless one
would like to keep logs of posts and so forth, which I do not need.
Currently deep sixing snit, % the bot posts (snit) and so forth is trivial >> under slrn and
from what I know should be equally trivial under pan as well but I have no >> experience
with pan so this is from what I have read.
And when a new sock appears, it's a couple of keystrokes to send the sock to >> the -9999
file forever.

If you like CLI apps, slrn rocks!

never listen to anything pothead says

White supremacists suck.
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