Re: gnus filter

[Elvin Peterson]

Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:

> On Fri, Sep 10 2004, Elvin Peterson wrote:
> 
> > Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:
> >> Put the following in your score file:
> >> 
> >> (("xref"
> >>   (":.+:.+:" -1000 nil r))
> >>  (mark-and-expunge -900))
> >> 
> >> ":.+:.+:" will match all articles posted to three or more newsgroups.
> >> Without the expunge line, the articles are marked as read, but still
> >> visible.  Adjust to your needs.
> >
> > This didn't work either.
> 
> I works for me.
> 
> If you want help, you should give a more useful problem description.
> What did you try?  How does it fail?  What doesn't work?  Scoring (see
> `V t'), expunge?  In which score file did you put the entry?  Do other
> score entries from this file work as expected?  Show us Xref line of
> the article.  Did you modify my example? ...

Well, the original didn't work, but now I have modified it as follows:

(("xref"
  (" .+ .+ " -1000 nil r))
 (mark-and-expunge -900))

And I no longer see the offending posts.  Thanks for the help.