From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/32551 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emerick Rogul Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [Q] stripping banners at the start of messages Date: 23 Sep 2000 07:55:55 -0400 Organization: Boston Rotary Club Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035168819 20483 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:53:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:53:39 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85B99D051E for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 07:56:39 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id GAC07442; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 06:56:21 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 23 Sep 2000 06:55:45 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA25090 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 06:55:35 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [195.204.10.139]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47708D051E for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 07:55:58 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from news@localhost) by quimby.gnus.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA10457 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 12:58:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 45 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: csa.bu.edu Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 969706701 5190 128.197.12.3 (23 Sep 2000 10:58:21 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Sep 2000 10:58:21 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.4 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:32551 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:32551 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 . "^---------------------------------------------------------------------\n")) -Emerick -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerick Rogul /\/ "i wouldn't want to live in a world that had emerick@cs.bu.edu /\/ seen my genitalia. you've got no trump card." -------------------------------------------------------- janeane garofalo