Comments on: Google Groups KillFile Released

By: Damian

Damian — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:26:57 +0000

I've just released the new version with Jeff's updates (better author matching/topic blocking). Please post comments to the new 3.4 thread

By: Fred Goodwin

Fred Goodwin — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:51:52 +0000

Sorry to keep coming back — someone posted this string as a way to filter all the MI5 spam:

{M[,'` \.\-]I[,'` \.\-]5.p.}

It assumes you can filter on subject, which I don’t think you’re current script does. But just in case any of the readers know how to do it, I thought I’d add this contribution.

By: Fred Goodwin

Fred Goodwin — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:39:58 +0000

Another bit of info:

My KF is empty but the Xs still don’t appear in the NG I read most often. However, if I go to a NG I’ve never read before, I see the Xs.

Not sure if that helps you diagnose the problem, but I thought I’d post it.

Thanx again.

By: Fred Goodwin

Fred Goodwin — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:02:11 +0000

Damian:

Thanx — I know you’re not being paid to support us, but you do have our everlasting gratitude.

By: Damian

Damian — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:34:21 +0000

Fred, Jeff Urs has done some work on the script and I’ll be posting that shortly. I’ll explain the new features and upload it later today. Hopefully it will take care of any issues you are having.

By: Fred Goodwin

Fred Goodwin — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:08:42 +0000

Damian: thanx for the script — I’m having the same problem as Adam.

Somewhere along the way, the “X”s stopped displaying and I can’t seem to bring them back (although “Ignore User” is still showing on individual posts). I’ve tried un-killing various troll-names, to no avail.

Even restoring my entire killfile doesn’t bring back the Xs.

By: Fred Goodwin

Fred Goodwin — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:28:23 +0000

Damian:

Another satisfied customer here. I tried the BHO for MSIE over at holysmoke.org, but your script works better and is more intuitive — it was enough to make me switch from MSIE to Firefox (at least for reading Google Groups!).

Thanx,

Fred Goodwin

By: S

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:57:35 +0000

Great little script you’ve built there! I was thrilled to find it, as I really didn’t want to install a dedicated newsreader, but was dealing with a real noisy troll problem. Thanks so much.

Just some quick feedback: Someone mentioned ~’s in usernames causing a problem. I’m also see this behaviour with other non-ascii characters, for instance

By JonnyQuest2®

doesn’t give you the “ignore user” option.

Thanks again.

By: Damian

Damian — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:58:31 +0000

Jeff thanks for updating the script; if you send me the changes you made and I’ll host them here, I was working on something similar last night but no point duplicating effort.

Mark, the … is how Google shows actual email addresses, they do it so spammers can’t just scrape addresses via Google Groups (not that they couldn’t just do it via another Usenet client). Wildcarding won’t work right now, lets see how Jeff implemented it and maybe that would work.

By: Mark W

Mark W — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:30:46 +0000

Damian, thanks for the note on about:config .

Using kill in the filter box works. Then I double-click on the greasemonkey entry that appears, and get a text-editable box with the killfile list.

Some questions:
1. So, we can just go ahead and edit the killfile list?
2. Can we do wildcard characters?
2a. And, is * the proper wildcard, or something is else?
3. What is the meaning of all the “…” appearing in the list entries?

Thanks Damian, great work on providing this service to us!

Mark

p.s. I find it easier to copy-and-paste the killfile list into a text editor like notepad, so that the entire string can be seen at once.