Re: [Pan-users] Trying to filer out cross posting in Pan 0.132

[psistormyamato]

> I had unfortunately lost my backup which had my score file I used to
> filter out cross posting. I did set it up initially by adding a scoring
> rule. Below is a copy of what it looks like:
>
> Score:: =-9999
> Xref: (.*:){2}
> Message-ID: googlegroups.com
> Message-ID: webtv.com
> Message-ID: msntv.com
> Message-ID: msntv.net
>
> As you can see from the above I am trying to kill off any articles that
> cross-post to 2 or more groups and filtering out known sources of Usenet
> spam. For some reason it's not doing this so I am wondering where I went
> wrong and am wondering if anyone has suggestions on how to properly set
> this up? Any suggestions would be most welcome.

Instead of filtering out potentially legitimate posters, why not just
switch to a news server that does a better job of handling the spam for
you? I have been using Motzarella, which is free, for a while now, and he
does a pretty good job of getting a lot of it before I ever see it.