Is there a NNTP client or filter (I seem to remember that there's an
open source "proxy" that does some kind of filtering) for Windows that
will get rid of junk cross-posted to kingdom come?

Well, I don't expect it to actually find junk using my subjective
standards but I'd be more than willing to forgo the opportunity to
evaluate everything posted to at least 3 or 4 newsgroups.

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Tester wrote:
What you are thinking of is Nfilter, also known as NewsProxy
http://www.nfilter.org/ nfilter : A Client-side Usenet News Filter

However, when you try to filter on items not shown in the overview
configured/provided by your news provider, the operation isn't as slick
as you might like.

Nfilter can filter on any fields, not just those appearing in the
overview, but when the desired field to filter is in the overview,
things work a lot better.

Here's a typical overview:
list overview.fmt
215 Order of fields in overview database.
Subject:
From:
Date:
Message-ID:
References:
Bytes:
Lines:
Xref:full

Notice that the Newsgroups: line isn't in there.

Another strategy is to use your own mini-newsserver, like Hamster, which
is also free. And yet another strategy is to use a more powerful
newsreader.



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On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:53:45 -0500, Tester wrote:

You could always do something big like (if your newsprovider allows) run
your own NNTP proxy. It gets the feeds you require and your news client
connects to that instead. That way you can manage all the filtering /
crossposting yourself.

Something like this?

http://www.forteinc.com/agent/faq.ph...2571C0000D3065
How does the new crosspost detection in Agent 4 work?

Crosspost management in Agent 4 is no longer limited by a cache file.
Instead of comparing the new message against a database of other
messages, Agent 4 simply looks at the message's list of newsgroups and
compares it against itself and your list of message folders in one or
both of two possible built-in methods:

<snip rest of notes>


Newsleecher / Newsbin have crosspost filter setting as well.


Me

Tester wrote:
Most all news clients. Probably not OE.


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In news:a5l3o2pbl81ah6nlhrvgnd4q4f5a1ddodk@entropy.or g Tester
<teest@test.org> wrote:


Xnews has a straight killfile, regular expression based scoring and the
ability to reject articles crossposted to whatever number of newsgroups
you want. It's free.

http://xnews.newsguy.com/

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On 2006-12-14, Tester <teest@test.org> wrote:
Which newsreader are you using? Most good ones can do that sort of
filtering.

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On 2006-12-14, Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> wrote:
snip

Normally, the Xref header contains a list of all cross-posted groups (or
at least, all the cross-posted groups that are carried by that server).

Assuming that one is running Windows; there are such programs for
Linux/Unix systems too, of course )

Always good advice.

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Bert Hyman wrote:

How about when a post is cross-posted to a *particular* newsgroup?

In news:jdqdnSCn-MkkSR_YnZ2dnUVZ_vShnZ2d@cavtel.net "Daave"
<dcwashNOSPAM@myrealboxXYZ.invalid> wrote:

Yes; in that case, you can filter on the Xref: header for one or more
groups.

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