On 2025-07-10 14:01:41 +0200, Urs Janßen wrote: > First of all, expired filter rules have ever been removed from the > filter file since Iain changed the format between tin-1.22 and > 270194APLHA so that behaviour is the same for the last ~31 years.
It is possible that these filter rules got removed before I had a chance to see them (it is quite uncommon that I closely look at these config files). In my case, they are created automatically by add_posted_to_filter=ON. It appears that I have a more general rule, which is permanent: group=* case=0 score=hot msgid=vinc17\.org (though it is not guaranteed to work in all cases, if ever my msgid format changes), and this could be another reason why I did not notice the issue before. > Second, comments in attributes (and tinrc etc.pp) have ever been dropped > when writing them since those file have a version number (for attributes > that's since 1.5.18 release 20030602). It's strange that I did not notice that before. Perhaps I was blindly copying my config from my own copy to the .tin/attributes file. But the latest changes in my own copy were done 4 years ago, and I was not sure that this copy matched the actual config on my new machine; that's why I looked closer in order to merge the config if need be. Note that the attributes file starts with # Group attributes file V1.0.xx for the TIN newsreader # Do not edit this comment block so that I expected that anything after this comment block would be preserved (or nicely converted). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
