In news:rec.food.cooking, Doug Freyburger > posted on
Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:16:14 +0000 (UTC) the following:

> sf wrote:
> > Wayne Boatwright > wrote:
> >
> > > The really unfortunate thing is that there doesn't seem to be a kill
> > > filter capable of filtering message content so that quoted posts
> > > could also be eliminated.
> >
> > Actually you *can* do that with Forte Agent 4 and newer. It's called
> > Kill Subthread. I'm not that concerned about never seeing other
> > people quote posters in my KF, so I don't have a version with that
> > feature.
>
> There was a discussion about that recently in news.software.readers.
> Someone so abusive that somoen even wanted to kill responses. A couple
> of scripts were posted but they were for specific newsreaders other than
> Agent. I am very fast to plonk someone into my filter but so far I have
> not wanted such a script.

For some newsgroups I use Hamster, a local NNTP server. Hamster downloads
all message bodies. I then use Agent to transfer the messages to Agent.
But what Hamster can do that Agent can't is filter on the message body, or
any header in a usenet message. So with Hamster, you could come up with a
scheme that would filter messages from certain posters containing a lot of
quoted text. And I think with Korrnews added to the chain, you could even
configure Korrnews to delete a percentage of quoted text from incoming
messages before they're saved into Hamster. I'm not sure about that for
sure, but Korrnews is pretty useful for various things. Both programs
have a bit of a learning curve, and they're far more capable than my
understanding to use them to their full potential.

I use Korrnews for special quotes sometimes, like to do this:

,---- [ Korrnews Example ]
| Blah blah.
| Blah blah blah.
| Blah blah blah blah.
`----

....I typed the following into Agent, without the quotation markers:

> qqq:
> Korrnews Example
> -
> Blah blah.
> Blah blah blah.
> Blah blah blah blah.
> #

....and then you see the results of how Korrnews changed the message
automatically before it was posted. I don't know if Korrnews will do that
without Hamster being used as a stopping point for messages.

> I still keep my google group account active because I search the
> archives.

Google Groups archives seem to be ruined. I have posted over 10,000
messages on usenet just under this ID alone, and the last time I checked,
it only showed 421.

Damaeus
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