nntp-support and kill file/scoring/...

[kaltheat]

Hi,

I use mutt as a newsreader. Works fine so far, but I increasingly get
annoyed by insane posters on some groups. Is it possible to block them with
mutt?

Regards,
kaltheat

[Grant Edwards]

Post by kaltheat
I use mutt as a newsreader. Works fine so far, but I increasingly get
annoyed by insane posters on some groups. Is it possible to block
them with mutt?

If you want scoring and the ability to "killfile" posters, slrn might
be a better choice:

http://slrn.sourceforge.net/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slrn

[Jerry Peters]

Post by Grant Edwards

Post by kaltheat
I use mutt as a newsreader. Works fine so far, but I increasingly get
annoyed by insane posters on some groups. Is it possible to block
them with mutt?

If you want scoring and the ability to "killfile" posters, slrn might
http://slrn.sourceforge.net/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slrn

Or tin.

[Jorgen Grahn]

Post by Grant Edwards

Post by kaltheat
I use mutt as a newsreader. Works fine so far, but I increasingly get
annoyed by insane posters on some groups. Is it possible to block
them with mutt?

If you want scoring and the ability to "killfile" posters, slrn might
http://slrn.sourceforge.net/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slrn

Yeah. Mutt for mail and slrn for news -- that's the combo I've used for
the past two decades.

/Jorgen

[Ian Zimmerman]

Post by kaltheat
I use mutt as a newsreader. Works fine so far, but I increasingly get
annoyed by insane posters on some groups. Is it possible to block them with
mutt?

mutt has a scoring feature, see section 3.24 of the manual. I have not
used it though so I can't say how well it works.