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   From: Hadron    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: Wanting to change from XP to Ubuntu and keep using Turnpike   
   Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 14:43:33 +0100   
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   Bernard Peek  writes:   
      
   > In message , SINNER   
   > <99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.invalid> writes   
   >>* David Floyd wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:   
   >>> In message of Fri, 2 Mar 2007, SINNER writes   
   >>   
   >>[...]   
   >>   
   >>>>> Bernard Peek listed most of the features. It seems you been asleep.   
   >>   
   >>>>It seems you need a lesson on Usenet.   
   >>   
   >>>>1) Usenet is NOT an immediate medium.   
   >>>>2) Propogation of posts may or may not make it to the server I read from   
   >>>>3) he posted the list as a result of MY POST, prior to that, you've all   
   >>>>been claiming a bunch of hooey with nothing to back it up.   
   >>   
   >>> You need a lesson in politeness.  Since you don't comprehend politeness   
   >>> I retort that you (wanker), are in my kill file (because I use Turnpike   
   >>> and am able to do so), so there is no point in replying to me.   
   >>   
   >>So, does TP kill on nym or a combo of addy and nym? I was not impolite,   
   >>and I am not avoiding your KF intentionally. I use different identities   
   >>in my Windows newsreader of choice than I do from my Linux reader of   
   >>choice.   
   >   
   > One of the annoying things about closed-source programs is that you   
   > can't be sure what it does. TP appears to killfile authors based on   
   > the entire address line, so changing either will avoid it. You can   
   > also create custom kill rules based on regexp matching against any   
   > header line. It can also kill complete threads, individual articles or   
   > subject lines.   
   >   
   > In a thread it's possible to select a message and break the thread at   
   > that point. The selected message becomes the parent of a new thread,   
   > effectively splitting the thread into two. Kill rules then affect the   
   > two threads separately. So if a thread topic wanders in one subthread   
   > you can kill that without affecting a different subthread you want to   
   > continue with.   
   >   
   > It also supports similar filtering for email. It's possible to set up   
   > a kill rule that will reject emails from a specific individual or   
   > domain, or by matching arbitrary regexps. So for instance I have a   
   > rejection rule set up to automatically reject any mail with a .EXE   
   > file as an attachment.   
      
   gnus does all this and more. It takes some learning though - its not for   
   the faint hearted.   
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