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Quoth Zenin <zenin@best.com>:
] The Renaissance Man <alaric@babylon5.babcom.com> wrote:
] 	>snip<
] : But I digress.  I've been trying to figure out a killfile regexp that 
] : will kill any article whose newsgroups line contains more than five 
] : commas, but so far without success.  Can anyone advise?
] 
] 	You don't play with camels much, do you? <evil, maniacal grin>
] 
] 	DANGER! -Quick, /untested/, perl hack follows...
] --------------------------------------------------------------------
] 	#!/usr/bin/perl
] 
] 	$_ = `grep '^Newsgroups: ' $directory/$message-number`;
] 	s/^Newsgroups: //;
] 
] 	if(split(/,/) > 5) {
] 	  unlink($directory/$message-number);
] 	}
] --------------------------------------------------------------------



Actually, I just finished my Suck patch, and in preliminary testing it 
appears to be working.  I can now tell my news system to simply not 
download any message crossposted to more than N groups (currently set to 
10, and will be reduced if necessary).


I'll be making the patch available soon.........


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