From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/3906 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steve Baumgarten Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Use of all.SCORE Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 11:09:24 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <199511091609.LAA01800@panix3.panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035144723 27815 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:12:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:12:03 +0000 (UTC) X-From-Line: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Thu Nov 9 09:44:21 1995 Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA22116 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 1995 09:44:19 -0800 Original-Received: from panix3.panix.com (panix3.panix.com [198.7.0.4]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 9 Nov 1995 17:09:26 +0100 Original-Received: (from sbb@localhost) by panix3.panix.com (8.7/8.7/PanixU1.3) id LAA01800; Thu, 9 Nov 1995 11:09:24 -0500 (EST) Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no Original-Lines: 33 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3906 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3906 I'm trying to figure out the best way to eliminate all traces of those idiots who spam the newsgroups I like to read. Often I can just do a lower-author-substring-permanent from the summary buffer; that puts an entry in, for example, rec.games.pinball.SCORE that looks like this: (("from" ("backman@hawaii.edu" -1000 nil s) (expunge -1000)) Then from that point on, I never see any postings by the spammer in rec.games.pinball again -- which is exactly what I want. However, sometimes these idiots post to a whole lot of groups, and I'd like to get rid of them everywhere, no matter what group I'm reading. So I do "V c" to change to all.SCORE, then "Lasp" as before, to get an entry in all.SCORE like the above. But what I find is that if I just have an entry in all.SCORE, when I generate a new rec.games.pinball summary the articles are marked with a "-" but are NOT expunged. (This is different behavior than if the entry were in rec.games.pinball.SCORE -- where the article is expunged and so never even shows up in the summary list.) I see this behavior even if I quit GNUS and restart it; it seems like only those morons in the rec.games.pinball.SCORE file get expunged. (BTW, this is with Gnus 5.0.10 running in emacs 19.29.) Anyone know why this is happening? Or, more to the point, is what I'm doing the best way to eliminate all traces of these morons from all newsgroups? Steve Baumgarten sbb@panix.com