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Skip-filter settings
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:07:23 GMT
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Newsgroup Skip-Filter Settings
This is a brief primer on newsgroup skip-filter settings, for those who
read LUGNET newsgroups using the web interface.
By default, the top-level newsgroup article listings give a comprehensive view
of all messages in the system, except for those appearing in “off-topic”
(non-LEGO related) groups such as the lugnet.off-topic tree of groups and the
lugnet.admin tree of groups. If you want to see more or less, you can adjust
this filter setting to suit your individual needs using
this form.
There you will find a box listing which groups to exclude at the top
level. A minus sign (-) at the beginning of a name means to exclude
groups matching that name, and a plus sign (+) at the beginning of a
name means to include groups matching that name. An empty list of names
means to include everything. Some examples:
- -.off-topic. -.admin.
- Show me everything except lugnet.off-topic and lugnet.admin messages. (This is the system default.)
- -.off-topic. -.people. +.people.newbie
- Show me everything except lugnet.off-topic and lugnet.people messages, but do show me lugnet.people.newbie messages.
- -.market. +.shopping
- Show me everything except the lugnet.market subtree, but do show me lugnet.market.shopping messages.
- -.starwars -.publish -.loc. +.loc.us -.loc.us.ca +.loc.us.ca.sf
- Show me everything except the lugnet.starwars, lugnet.publish, and lugnet.loc subtrees of messages. But do show me all the lugnet.loc.us (United States) messages, except for the lugnet.loc.us.ca (California) messages. But do show me all the lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf (San Francisco) messages.
- +lugnet
- Show me everything. Note: option this will be automatically optimized into an empty filter (no filter) since the filter contains no groups to exclude.
Changing this setting will cause a cookie to be sent to your browser, so
that it can remember your setting.
Please Note
This filter is based on message location, not message content. This is
simply a crude high-level filter which skips over messages contained in
certain groups (which you specify).
No promises or guarantees are made about the filter’s suitabity or
accuracy. Be aware that this filter cannot possibly hide all
objectionable content from your eyes.
--Todd
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