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

de Frank Slootweg 01/30/2008 04:01

[Intentional top-post.]

Oops! I just saw that I mixed up two posters!

I thought I was responding to "M.L." and that he had changed his bad
habits (no attribution and abuse of the privacy.net domain), but I was
responding to you, Me.Here <me.here@home_on_the.net>. I guess that both
proves our point about the need for proper attribution and my sillyness
(expecting someone to actually change his bad habits).

So I take back my thanks to "M.L." and hope that my advice about
".invalid" is of use to you (Me.Here <me.here@home_on_the.net>) or/and
someone else.

A little earlier, I wrote:
> 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).)
> [...]
> > 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.
>
> [...]