Newswatcher and Supernews

In article <1ieow93.vrcw02gmz8edN%nospam@ab-katrinedal.dk>,
nospam@ab-katrinedal.dk (Niels Jørgen Kruse) wrote:

> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>
> I have a filter on Newsgroups.
>
> You could just install leafnode on your Mac. The bandwith of pulling
> down the spam is hardly going to kill a broadband connection.

As far as I can tell, leafnode does not include those headers in the
overview.fmt database either.

Perhaps INN would do the trick, but from what I gather, it's a XXXXX to
install and configure correctly.

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In article
<jollyroger-71C070.15301331032008@earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

> In article < 310320081425373895%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbal
derstone.ca>,
>  Dave Balderstone <dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone.ca> wrote:
> 
>
> I do have filters that look at the References header, and MT-NewsWatcher
> is not showing the 503 error message when I view subscribed news groups.
>
> How do you mean "broken"?

Trying to filter on it generates an error.

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In article < 310320081641157932%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbal
derstone.ca>,
Dave Balderstone <dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone.ca> wrote:

> In article
> <jollyroger-71C070.15301331032008@earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>,
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>
> Trying to filter on it generates an error.

Is it the 503 "header not supported" error?

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In article
<jollyroger-71C070.15301331032008@earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

> I do have filters that look at the References header, and MT-NewsWatcher
> is not showing the 503 error message when I view subscribed news groups.
>
> How do you mean "broken"?

I must have had a different filter that was throwing the error. I just
tested References: again and it is working.

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In article
<jollyroger-1130EC.14523931032008@earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

> Apparently "Bumblebee" thinks the mere existence of headers in a _post_
> equates to their being included in the _overview.fmt database_, which is
> incorrect. It's obvious "Bumblebee" was unable to read and comprehend my
> question. I politely explained that was not the answer to my question
> and asked for "Bumblebee" to forward my post to a server administrator
> who can answer the question.
>
> Strike one for Easynews...

Okay, Easynews wrote back:

On 3/31/08 4:45 PM, "Support via RT" <support@easynews.com> wrote:

> Here are the entries viewed when listing the overview.fmt database on
> the Easynews server:
>
> From:
> Date:
> Message-ID
> References:
> Bytes:
> Lines:
> Xref:full

So Easynews is out.

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In article
<jollyroger-B45639.17511331032008@earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

>
> So Easynews is out.

I haven't tried them, but there's also databasix.com...

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In article < 310320080959517107%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbal
derstone.ca>,
Dave Balderstone <dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone.ca> wrote:

> In article <howard-AF4CC8.10533331032008@news.supernews.com>, Howard S
> Shubs <howard@shubs.net> wrote:
> 
>
> So far I've found I can no longer filter on the References or
> Newsgroups headers. If you have any filters like that, try disabling
> them.

I've been using Giganews for several years through Comcast's bundled
service, and I don't have any problem filtering on References.

I can't filter on Newsgroups, but you can get the same effect by
filtering on Xref.  The only significant difference is that group names
are separated by spaces instead of commas.

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In article <1ieow93.vrcw02gmz8edN%nospam@ab-katrinedal.dk>,
nospam@ab-katrinedal.dk (Niels Jørgen Kruse) wrote:

> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>
> I have a filter on Newsgroups.

Change it to filter on Xref.  Change any commas in the filter to spaces
and it should work fine.

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In article < 310320081814424350%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbal
derstone.ca>,
Dave Balderstone <dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone.ca> wrote:

>
> I haven't tried them, but there's also databasix.com...

Yeah, I think I'd give up Usenet forever first.
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In article
<jollyroger-A7A904.14390731032008@earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

> In article <310320081533242551%fort514@mac.com>,
>  Charles <fort514@mac.com> wrote:
> 
>
> I've put in sales/support queries (regarding headers included in
> overview.fmt databases) to several of the larger providers today and
> will post the results here.

I have some good news.

I just remembered I had a free Tera News account I used a year or so
ago, and decided to see if it was still active. It was.

I am happy to report that all of my MT-NewsWatcher filters work with the
free Tera News account.  : )

Tera News free accounts are limited to 50 megabytes of transfers per
day. Free accounts that reach that limit are deactivated until the next
day. They do offer pay accounts, with increased daily and monthly
download limits. More information here:

<http://www.teranews.com/createaccount.html>

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