Re: Keith Thompson's messages dont come through


"David Thompson" <dave.thompson2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 02:05:18 +0100, "Charlie Gordon"
<news@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<snip: issues with news propagation>
Also does anyone know of an NNTP reader that can retrieve posts from
different servers and aggregate them in a single local store, removing
duplicates (and spam ;-)

On Win32 only (or emulations like Wine), as is true for OE:

Forte' Agent at www.forteinc.com version 3 or up (current is 4.2).
30-day free trial then USD29, or up through IIRC 3.3 allows a
permanently free but somewhat restricted mode called Free Agent.

Resolves true duplicates (same message-id) across servers and
downloads from only one. Resolves cross-posts by message-id and can
filter or discard.

Can filter news (before download) only on Author and Subject,
synthesized Newsgroups, and number of lines; this can be used to deal
with some spam but not all. Automatic filtering on additional headers
(after download) is a FAQ and FRequestedFeature in the Agent users
newsgroup alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent and may happen
someday. In the meantime you can do particularly troublesome lots in
less than a minute by global-search, select-all, delete-or-whatever.
v4 has much more extensive (and complicated) features for dealing with
spam and junk _email_ -- if you choose to use Agent for your email.

Uses hash values rather than full message-id's to thread, which can
result in false matches. On moderate volume groups like clc, I
experience this issue maybe 2-3 times a year, but high-volume binary
folks complain pretty vociferously about it.

I know this is somewhat off topic, but this annoyance hampers my ability
to
follow some of the most interesting discussions, and probably affects
several regulars on the forum, including the one that posts the weekly
stats.
Holy ***, I came here to challenge Jabba but would rather comment on the
above. I'm trying opera.

Tja.


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