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poptones ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Wed Dec 8 19:37:19 UTC 2004


Norman Silverstone Wrote: 
> On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 13:21 -0500, poptones wrote:
> > -I would like to set things up so that all items older than, say, 3
> days
> > are automatically removed. Can this be done and how?-
> > 
> > Hi again norman. It's basically the same process to remove old posts
> as
> > it is to score them. click tools>add custom filter and choose the
> rules
> > by which you want to remove posts (short posts, crossposts, old
> posts,
> > etc).
> 
> Thank you again for your help. I have done as you recommend and I have
> also made an entry in tools>rules. I hope that is correct
> 

Sounds right. BTW if you make a rule for "crossposted to more than
three groups" you can strip out a huge amount of spam right off the
top. You can add as many conditions to a rule as you like, it doesn't
just have to be one by date, one by post size, etc.


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poptones




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