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Hi,

i've tried creating a simple composite filter which looks like this

Author Filter - Author contains "xxxx@xxx.com"
Subject Filter - Subject contains "mp4|wmv"
Composite Filter - Composite "Author Filter|Subject Filter"

When i try applying this to my newsgroup, it seem that only the subject filter is being applied.

If I apply the author filter on its own, it works fine and also applying thje subject filter on its own works fine. But the composite one doesn't seem to work as expected.. it seems to ignore the author part.


EDIT:

This would make sense if the two filters were being OR'ed in the composite rather than AND'ed ... is that how a composite filter works? If so, is there any way to AND them together?

you need instead the composite filter

Author Filter&Subject Filter

| means OR
& means AND

Thank you Alex!

I have one more question related to a watch filter. When I try to use the newly created watch filter what I'm trying to get it to auto download are sample of movies rather than the whole movie (for example).

However what it seems to do is mark the whole collection for download, not just the one .wmv file within that collection.

e.g. the collection contains these files:

movie.wmv
movie.part01.rar
movie.part02.rar
etc..

I only want the .wmv file to be "watched and auto downloaded". Is there any way to achieve this?

You can check threads menu->show only files matching filters in collection (there is also toolbar icon, you can see it in the menu).

Or check edit menu->properties->general, collections, show only files matching filters in collection by default if you want the option to be checked by default on newsgroup opening.