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    From John McCue@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 7 23:52:12 2023
    Hi all,

    I finally bit the bullet and decided to kill all google
    group posts. This is due to massive spam in comp.lang.c
    that has shown up in the past few days.

    As a tin user, it took me a bit to figure it out :)
    In tin to kill posts from google groups, add this to
    ~/.tin/filter

    group=*
    case=0
    score=kill
    msgid_last=*<*@googlegroups.com>*

    Maybe people can add to this for other clients :)

    HTH this helps people using tin.

    --
    [t]csh(1) - "An elegant shell, for a more... civilized age."
    - Paraphrasing Star Wars

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 7 21:34:38 2023
    Maybe people can add to this for other clients :)

    HTH this helps people using tin.

    Back in the day - 2002 or so?* - there was this dude Blinky the Shark
    whose "Usenet Improvement Project" collected the necessary info to
    block GoogleGroups no matter which Usenet client you used. He died
    around 2012 or so as I recall, but someone keeps his info alive.

    http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/

    The info for TIN is here. Slightly different than your approach but there's more than one way to get what you want I'm sure:

    http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/filters_ex3.html

    *Take all my dates with a grain of salt. Not worth being more precise
    and too tired/lazy to look it up.

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  • From John McCue@21:1/5 to Retrograde on Fri Sep 8 14:08:03 2023
    Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com> wrote:
    <snip>

    The info for TIN is here. Slightly different than your
    approach but there's more than one way to get what you
    want I'm sure:

    http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/filters_ex3.html

    Thanks for the reminder, that is/was a great site.
    But sadly that option no longer works for tin :)

    IIRC, how tin filters posts was rewritten somewhere between
    now and that page was last updated. I submitted feedback
    on the page in case he wants to update it.

    Regards

    --
    [t]csh(1) - "An elegant shell, for a more... civilized age."
    - Paraphrasing Star Wars

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  • From John McCue@21:1/5 to John McCue on Fri Sep 8 14:18:14 2023
    John McCue <jmccue@magnetar.jmcunx.com> wrote:
    <snip>

    I submitted feedback on the page in case he wants to update it.

    Sadly the page is returning 404 on submit :(

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    [t]csh(1) - "An elegant shell, for a more... civilized age."
    - Paraphrasing Star Wars

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  • From Computer Nerd Kev@21:1/5 to John McCue on Sat Sep 9 09:52:54 2023
    John McCue <jmccue@magnetar.jmcunx.com> wrote:
    In tin to kill posts from google groups, add this to
    ~/.tin/filter

    group=*
    case=0
    score=kill
    msgid_last=*<*@googlegroups.com>*

    Just a note that if wildcard=1 in ~/.tin/tinrc (not default), I
    believe Tin will expect regular expressions instead of the
    wildmat form that you've used.

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