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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: Preventing crap email from google?
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:21:36 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2012-10-22, Walter Hurry <walterhurry@lavabit.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:51:35 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
>
>> Walter Hurry <walterhurry@lavabit.com> writes:
>> 
>>> It is Google bloody Groups which is the problem. I should have plonked
>>> posts from there ages ago, and am about to remedy that omission.
>> 
>> What narrowly-defined, precise filter rule should be used for this
>> purpose?
>
> Depends on how you read the list, I think. In my case, via Usenet 
> (comp.lang.python) with Pan, so I shall filter on "googlegroups.com" in 
> the Message-ID.

Same here.  Here's the rule I have in slrn's .score file:

Score:: =-9999
 Message-ID: .*googlegroups.com

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