"Grumman-581" wrote:

"alexy" wrote in message
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I don't know if any have that capability. What I use is a
no-longer-supported freeware program called NewsProxy (also known as
nfilter). It sits between your newsreader and your internet
connection, and applies rules to filter messages. Not the most
user-friendly software, but if you are moderately computer adept, you
can make it work. It's popular on another forum I participate in,
where one of the regulars keeps updating the rule set to get rid of
some of the noise in the forum. It might be what you are looking for.
Examples from his rule set include killing messages from known trolls
and spammers, troll indicators in the subject line, cross posts to
more than 3 groups or to particular irrelevant groups, while not
filtering out messages cross-posted to certain relevant groups.

crossposting to alt.aviation.safety,rec.autos.sport.nascar snipped

I've tried it, but couldn't find a way to filter based on the "Newsgroups:"
field in the headers....

Try this line:
rec.aviation.piloting drop xref:*autos.*
to drop all messages in r.a.p crossposted to a group with "autos" in
its name.

And this line:

* drop xref:[^:]+{3,}

to drop all articles (in any group) crossposted to 3 or more groups.
(I'd have to study up on regular expressions to decade that last one,
but it works.)

Will the obvious demunge of your address work? If so, I'll send you
the filter file someone prepared for another group, which might give
you some ideas.
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