Re: [Q] stripping banners at the start of messages

[Emerick Rogul <emerick@csa.bu.edu>]

Steinar Bang writes:

: Platform: Gnus v5.8.8 (CVS checkout), XEmacs 20.4, linux
: Some mailing lists have started putting those annoying banners at the
: start of the messages instead of at the end.

: I have tried getting rid of banners like this:

: -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~>
: Tired of searching for an apartment?  Try Viva!  It's fast and free.
: Now serving Dallas, Houston, Austin, Phoenix, Denver and Las Vegas.
: Rent by September 30th - get $100 cash!
: http://click.egroups.com/1/9154/16/_/461700/_/968288860/
---------------------------------------------------------------------_-: 

: with the following setting in the group parameters of the mail group
: handling the list:

:  (banner . "\n-------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~>\n.*\n.*\n.*\n.*\n---------------------------------------------------------------------_->\n")

: Is it me who has gotten the syntax of the banner setting wrong?  Or
: doesn't banner suppresion work on banners not at the end of the
: messages? 

I use the "banner" setting to get rid of the eGroups Sponsor messages
too, and it seems to work fine whether they're at the beginning or end
of the message.  Be aware that eGroups periodically changes the format
of the message (how annoying...), so you may need to tweak it every
once in a while.  I distinctly remember that when they moved it to the
top they also changed the format a little, which tricked me into
thinking that "banner" wouldn't work if it wasn't at the end of a
message.

Try building your banner up line by line instead of all at once,
too.  You may see an error in your regex.  Here's the regex I use for
my eGroups group:

(banner . "^--------------------------------------------------------------------<e|-\n\\(.\\|\n\\)*--------------------------------------------------------------------|e>-\n"))

-Emerick
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