Re: Something other/'better' than NewsProxy?

de Rom 01/31/2008 04:59

On 31 Jan 2008 15:04:27 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:

> M.L. <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:
> [...]
>>> NNTP-Posting-Host: and X-Complaints-To: are also not part of a
>>> standard overview database, but they're used in the suggested
>>> nfilter.dat. Don't they work?
>>
>> They don't work for me because my news provider doesn't let NewsProxy
>> filter on anything outside of overview.fmt.
>
> If NewsProxy is indeed *that* limited, then some of the users may want
> to look at alternatives, especially if their main concern is filtering,
> but they don't have major 'bandwidth' limitations.
>
> For example, as I said before, Hamster [1] can filter on *any* header
> - independent of server-support - and on any body content. However in
> order to be able to do that, Hamster will *download* any articles which
> were not filtered by the XOVER data ('overview.fmt') and then filter
> those articles before passing them on to the newsreader. (Of course it
> will not *store* any filtered articles.) So Hamster will only save
> little *bandwidth*, but will provide advanced filtering capability.
>
> However Hamster is not *just* a filter, it is also a local News server
> which means that you read 'offline'/semi-online. If you can't stand such
> a mode, then Hamster is not for you, and you get what you deserve! :-)

Or try an alternative newsreader, for example:

Dialog is an offline/online newsreader, works similar to Hamster in
that Dialog can filter on any header in the overview when retrieving
headers and any (other) header when retrieving bodies (articles).
Headers and/or bodies can be retrieved for any group(s). So, with
filtering/scoring rules, set your regular/problem text groups to
retrieve bodies with headers, and new rules can also be added and
applied to group(s) after retrieval. Dialog's gets its scoring from
Hamster, and also has actions like delete, ignore and watch
(sub)threads. <http://www.40tude.com/dialog/>

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Rom