Re: Banner Washing

[Glyn Millington]

"Gary" <gnus@garydjones.name> writes:

> Alberto Luaces wrote:
>
>> "Gary" writes:
>>
>>> Is there some way of specifying "from this point on until the end
>>> of
>> the
>>> article"? I don't want to have to specify every single line of the
>>> entire block I want to remove.
>> Are you looking for `message-kill-to-signature' (C-c C-z) while
>> composing the reply in message mode?
>
> I don't think so. What I am interested in is
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusAdBannerWashing

Well to set up that example as an alist you would do something like this in
your .gnus file.  I guess the fine art in this is to construct a regular
expression which will catch the banners you are tryng to kill off.


(set gnus-article-address-banner-alist

;; Alist of mail addresses and banners.  Each element has the
;; form (ADDRESS . BANNER), where ADDRESS is a regexp to match a
;; mail address in the From: header, BANNER is one of a symbol
;; `signature', an item in `gnus-article-banner-alist', a regexp and
;; nil.  If ADDRESS matches author's mail address, it will remove
;; things like advertisements.  For example:



    ; Yahoo - This regular expression should be reasonably stable, and
    ;         reasonably safe.
    '(("@yahoo\\.com" . "^__________________+\nDo you Yahoo!\\?\n.*\n.*\n")

    ; Hotmail - Not very much can be matched, so this could be dangerous.
    ;           Should be reasonably stable though.
    ;           The other option is to use a much less stable value, and
    ;           update it frequently.
    ("@hotmail\\.com\\|@msn.com" . 
"^_________________________________________________________________\n.*MSN 
.*\n.*\n")

    ; Netscape - Very unstable value, not much else can be done though.
    ;            Unless a more stable value can be found, it seems the
    ;            best way to maintain this is to OR updated regexps with
    ;            this value.
    ("@netscape\\.net" . 
"^__________________________________________________________________\n.*Netscape
 Network.*\n.*\n.*\n\n.*AOL Instant Messenger.*\n.*\n")))

atb

Glyn