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In article <Bz7Kxs.Eo2@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>
>Does anyone have a well-behaved program for handling news articles that
>end up in the junk newsgroups?
>

I basically have a script that goes into the "junk" directory and execute
something like this:

grep "Newsgroups: " ./* | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | awk '$1 >= 10 {print " " $1 "  " $2 }'

...this simply gives me a list of junk newsgroups with over ten articles in
the past day. I check this every night before expire runs (I set junk to
expire in 1 day). Then it's a matter of me checking for junk newsgroups that
have 10+ articles per day for a few days straight so I can manually add them.

Other than that, there's little you can do about junk articles other than
take note and expire them. I'd be interested in finding out if anyone there
has further automated the "checking for sustained newsgroup traffic" which
I'm doing manually right now. I remember someone mentioned a script/program
which would do this, but there was never a follow-up.



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