On Sun, 8 Mar 1998 14:19:03 -0800, "D.A. Harris"
<rodmur(_at_)ecst(_dot_)csuchico(_dot_)edu> wrote:
Is there anything like procmail for USENET? Something like could
trn a little more capability than it's KILL file setup?
Depends on what you mean by "something like". A good (albeit rather
academic ;-) overview of available filtering tools is to be found at
<http://www.ee.umd.edu/medlab/filter/>, Doug Oard's Information
Filtering Resources page.
Out of those listed by Oard and still available despite some link rot,
NewsClip is perhaps the closest to what you're asking for, but most of
these Usenet filtering resources I've looked at don't work over NNTP,
as far as I can tell. (You have to have access to the actual news
spool files. I've only had a very quick look at most of them, though.)
I'm toying with my own little Perl client; the NNTPClient module on
CPAN provides you with a very good framework.
If you merely want to monitor Usenet for some rarely changing things
like your own name, your best bet might be reference.com (this is
built on Stanford's SIFT engine). Good luck with getting a reply from
their e-mail autoresponder, though ...
If you're merely out to kill stuff, you could take a look at NoCEm and
hope that somebody is actively NoCEming the groups you read.
<http://www.cm.org/>
Hope this helps,
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