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Example Display Filters
Last fooled around with: July 28, 2001
Set up your own custom display filters under
Newsgroup > Define Filter Display > New
For a shortcut, click the FILTER button 
on the filter bar.
Versions 2.2 and higher add the filter
condition to show the
entire thread if any article matches the filter.
|
Don't forget the "advanced" window.
You will need it to use an OR condition or regular
expression in a filter.
ALERT! You cannot use a BODY condition in
your filters. They will not work properly. |
Example filters:
Show only threads with unread articles
This one is a favorite. It shows unread articles but also includes
the entire thread. The only thing you need to do is make a filter to
show unread articles and check the box "Include the entire thread
if any article matches the filter."
Marked as unread
Show unread articles and include recent articles
View unread articles and include recent ones.
Marked as unread
Or
(
Not
Posted > 1 days ago
)
NOTE: Use the "advanced" window to get the "OR"
condition.
See who is posting with Gravity
This one is just for fun (unless you have something more important
to do). It isn't quite foolproof but will let you see most people who post with
Gravity. It filters on the MPG, which Gravity prepends to the article message ID.
Press H to see the headers and you will see what version they are using.
Header contains reg. expr. "[M][P][G]"
Show my own posts.
From contains "nfn03862@naples.net"
Show replies to me and include my articles.
From contains "nfn03862@naples.net"
Or
In reply to my message
Show only Gravity articles
Subject contains "gravity"
Optional .. Add Marked as unread
Show larger articles, useful for binaries..
Lines > 800
Or, modify it to show only unread
Lines > 800
And
Marked as unread
Show new articles (helpful for locating recent posts).
While you are at it make another for 2 or 3 day. These are very useful
to quickly find recently-posted articles.
Not
Posted > 1 days ago
Show recent scored articles.
Not
Posted > 1 days ago
And
Score > 0
Show low scored articles.
(Why? I don't know but it was requested once)
Not
Score > 0
Show multi-part articles
Cleans up a group with many multipart binaries.
Subject contains reg. expr. "[0-9]+/[0-9]+"
And
Subject does not contain "re: "
Optional .. Add Marked as unread
Show jpg images
Subject contains ".jpg"
If you want to avoid seeing replies that don't contain an attachment
add a lines condition like this.
Subject contains ".jpg"
And
Lines > 400
Show jpgs, gifs or un-named single part binaries.
(
Lines > 400
And
Subject does not contain reg. expr. "[0-9]+/[0-9]+"
)
Or
(
Lines > 400
And
(
Subject contains ".jpg"
Or
Subject contains ".gif"
)
)
You may need to fine tune it. But this filter shows
- any article which contains a jpg
or gif extension AND is more than 400 lines
- any subject which doesn't contain a
(01/03) or similar and has more than 400 lines.
You can specify other file extensions the same way. Note that if
you use a regular expression and want to include the period it should
be escaped with a back slash, like this ..
Subject contains reg. expr. "\.jpg|\.gif"
Show unread local
Unread articles that are local
Show watched threads
In a watched thread
Optional .. Add Marked as unread
Show tagged articles.
This is very handy if you like to test rules and use the tag as
a user flag.
All articles that are tagged
Show protected, for my "archives"
All articles that are protected
Show binary descriptions
Subject contains reg. expr. "(\(|\[){1}0+/[0-9]+(\)|\])"
This filter will show only the description articles of multi-part binaries
i.e. (0/4) or (00/34) 0r (000/333). Set this up under advanced
and don't forget the checkbox for regular expressions. If you
only want to see the unread articles use the following one.
Unread articles
And
(
Subject contains reg. expr. "(\(|\[){1}0+/[0-9]+(\)|\])"
)
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