newsbin.com

Hello:

First of all, I was a long time Agent user just switched to Newsbin.

Agent seems to filter slightly different from Newsbin.

1. I want to exclude any messages with .exe (I understand I would use the expression "\.exe" (No Quotes). Is there a Kill filter that would delete these messages from the group after I applied the filter?
For Example, the initial download already happened and now I add the filter. How do I make the messages already downloaded with exe go away?

2. Is there a way to filter messages that have 3 or less lines. In Agent I would use the the following: [1:3]. What would be the proper syntax in Newsbin to not bring them in on a download.

3. If you'd like to filter out a specific author, can you explain the proper steps to do this in Newsbin?

Thank you again for the great product and I'm kicking myself for being with Agent so long.

Maxdout38

1) Just reloading the group should apply the filter.

2) Use a size filter for this. For example, set a minimum file size of 5K in the Global filter profile (under Add Filters).

3) Right-click on the post and select Lockout Poster or hit ctrl-P.

1) Just reloading the group should apply the filter.

I'd rather not reload a 3 million message group.

There's a filter dropdown at the top of the list. If you drop it, pick a filter and undrop it, it'll apply the filter.

Couple other things. If you search for "[.]exe", hit Ctrl-A then shift-delete. It'll delete all the matching posts both from disk and from the display so, you never need to see them again.

I don't know how Agent does it but, Newsbin lets you clean all the crap out of the stored posts.

Quade wrote:There's a filter dropdown at the top of the list. If you drop it, pick a filter and undrop it, it'll apply the filter.

Couple other things. If you search for "[.]exe", hit Ctrl-A then shift-delete. It'll delete all the matching posts both from disk and from the display so, you never need to see them again.

I don't know how Agent does it but, Newsbin lets you clean all the crap out of the stored posts.

May be a dumb questions, but how do you search for an author and delete his posts?

There's currently nothing to do that explicitly in a single step, although something similar has been knocked around as an idea for a while.

DT

Click on one of his posts, column sort on "From" then select his posts and shift-del.