arnuld posted on Mon, 27 Aug 2018 16:19:31 +0530 as excerpted: > You can see one example here: > http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/filters_ex1.html > > [*] Score:: =-9999 Message-ID: googlegroups Message-ID: webtv > > It will just ignore all posts from google/gmail (because that is from > where 99% of spam comes. If I see someone spamming then I just > right-click that post in pan and select "Edit Score" and choose the > options according to what I want to do. > > On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 2:08 PM Dieter Britz > <dieterhansbr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> How does one set up a kill file in pan? Some of the ngs I frequent are >> infested, and in one of them the sender seems to have a long-term email >> address, so a kill file might work for a while.
@arnuld: There's a reason why pan warns about top-posting. Please post in standard quote/reply-in-context format. It makes further replies in context /much/ simpler to do for the poster and to follow for the reader. @ Dieter: Despite the top-posting breach of protocol, arnuld's implication, that scoring is the way pan does kill (and watch) files, is correct. In fact, the ignore/watch menu items simply add a scoring rule setting =-9999 (for ignore or =9999 (watch) rules based on the author header (ignore author) or the appropriate message-id in references header (ignore/watch thread). What you then have pan do with those watched/ignored scores, or for that matter posts matching other scoring rules you may setup, is up to you. IIRC pan doesn't show posts matching -9999/ignored by default, but there are options for matching that and all the other scoring categories in the view > header pane menu, as well as whether only the matched articles themselves are shown, or whether the display includes the subthread or entire thread, as well. You will, however, note that pan doesn't auto-mark ignored posts as read by default, or by default take other actions such as auto-deleting ignored or low-scoring or auto-caching/downloading high-scoring or watched posts. However, these are options too, with setup available for them on the actions tab of the preferences dialog. Also available are score-category-based color-coding options for the score column (if you have the scores column set to display of course). These can be set along with the rest of pan's colors settings, on the colors tab of the preferences dialog. So one possible setup would be to configure auto-deleting of ignored messages, auto-marking-read of low-scoring (under 0) messages, so you don't see them by default but they're still available if you want to read them (and they're not so bad as to be ignore-deleted), and auto-caching of high-scoring or watched articles. Meanwhile, a couple additional points on scoring: * While pan's menus and dialogs allow scoring on select headers, generally those normally found in the overviews file, by manually editing the scorefile it's possible to score any arbitrary header. However, note that if the header isn't in the overview file pan fetches when it downloads headers, pan won't be able to actually score on it until the entire article is downloaded to pan's local cache. This obviously isn't as efficient as being able to score from the overviews file before download-to-cache, but it can still be useful if it avoids having to manually deal with the article, read a troll or spam, etc. * Briefly, pan's scorefile uses slrn's scorefile syntax, tho pan doesn't handle some of the advanced features, and last I checked, handled all scoring rules using OR logic -- the AND logic parsing was broken. The big tip for manually editing the scorefile is that all lines beginning with the % character are comments and don't affect actual parsing at all. Pan actually adds a lot of these, but they're for the human reader, not pan, and can be deleted if you are trying to consolidate. Just ask if you want more info about the scorefile syntax and manual editing... or check the list archives as I've posted rather detailed instructions and examples quite a few times over the years. * The one thing that pan's scoring doesn't allow, that I wish it did, is score on key words or phrases in the body, the sig, or in the entire post, headers and body. Of course that too would require downloading-to- cache in ordered for that scoring to take effect, but it'd sure be a nice feature when trying to avoid nymshifting trolls/spammers that still tend to use specific off-topic keywords in their message bodies (including sigs). -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
