About filtering messages

About filtering messages

[reader]

I posted about this earlier and never saw a response, maybe it is so
painfully obvious I should know how... but I don't know or maybe have
forgotten how. 

I want to filter newsgroups for a specific author and take some action
on that authors posts automatically.  

I don't mean to kill or score or whatever, I want to grab the content
and keep it somewhere.  Not like keeping in the agent sense but
copying the content and a few headers to a file somewhere.

Re: About filtering messages

[Tassilo Horn]

reader@newsguy.com writes:

Hi,

> I want to filter newsgroups for a specific author

  / a Author RET

> and take some action on that authors posts automatically.

  M P a

to mark all the postings, and then

  | cat - > foo.txt

to pipe them into the file foo.txt.

Of course, that's not automatically.

Bye,
Tassilo
-- 
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Re: About filtering messages

[reader]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

> Of course, that's not automatically.

Thanks, but automating it is what my question is about.

Re: About filtering messages

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:34:02 -0600 reader@newsguy.com wrote: 

r> Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
>> Of course, that's not automatically.

r> Thanks, but automating it is what my question is about.

Using C-h k, figure out the functions that are called by the keys
Tassilo listed.  They can all be called non-interactively, so you can
assemble the list of articles and process it in a function.

Ted

Re: About filtering messages

[reader]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:34:02 -0600 reader@newsguy.com wrote: 
>
> r> Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
>>> Of course, that's not automatically.
>
> r> Thanks, but automating it is what my question is about.
>
> Using C-h k, figure out the functions that are called by the keys
> Tassilo listed.  They can all be called non-interactively, so you can
> assemble the list of articles and process it in a function.

OK, but this sounds like a very awkward way to do things.  I had hoped
there was some way to use sorting like one can with mail.