Re: Stopping Sporge tutorial using NewsProxy (where do we get nfilter.dat)?

de Frank Slootweg 01/30/2008 03:50

Me.Here <me.here@home_on_the.net> wrote:
>
> [OK] Frank Slootweg wrote:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Thanks! :-)

> > I assume that you mean that that's a limitation of NewsProxy? I.e.
> > NewsProxy can't filter on headers for which the server doesn't offer
> > XHDR/XPAT/<other> support? (I use Hamster which can filter on any header
> > (or/and the body).)
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> Frank, that doesn't make sense - no software can filter on headers they
> don't see or get offered from their newsserver. In short, it isn't a
> limitation with NewsProxy, it's a limitation imposed by the newsserver.

'Q' has already responded to that part (use HEAD), so I don't have to.

Leaves me to thank you for your change of 'address' in your From:
line!

However another minor but important nit:

While I haven't checked whether underscores in a domain name are at
all valid, the proper and standard (RFC 2606 "Reserved Top Level DNS
Names") way to indicate that a domain is fake is to add ".invalid" to
the end (see my From: line). I.e. ".invalid" is a *defined* Top Level
Domain Name, which is *guaranteed* to never exist. Using ".invalid" has
the added advantage that compliant mailers do not even *try* to send
mail to such non-addresses, because they *know* it's not a valid/working
e-mail address.

So in short, it would be best if you would use something like
me.here@home_on_the.net.invalid, but *anything* ending in ".invalid" is
fine, so perhaps just the shorter me.here@home.invalid

I hope this helps and thanks again.

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