Re: newsreader for Debian unstable with cross-posting/filtering controls

[Joe <joe@jretrading.com>]

Arthur Marsh wrote:
> Hi, I read newsgroups from my ISP's nntp server and from news.gmane.org.
>
> Many of the spam messages coming from news.gmane.org have a cross-post 
> to gmane.spam.detected.
>
> What newsreader packages are available in Debian unstable that have the 
> ability to filter (even if only mark as read) messages that can be 
> identified as spam by such a cross-post or by header/body contents?
>
> As far as I can tell, Thunderbird (which I currently use) does not have 
> this capability nor will it soon. I don't want to go quite as primitive 
> as tin, so I'm trying knews for now.

Pan can count cross-posts, though not filter on many headers. It seems
to be under active development i.e. frequently updated in Sid and does
crash now and then. Seems a bit more stable over the last week or two.