Re: Stopping Sporge tutorial using NewsProxy (where do we get

de Peter J Ross 01/31/2008 10:36

In news.software.readers on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:58:15 -0700, Donna
Ohl, Grady Volunteer Coordinator <donna.ohl@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> * drop X-Complaints-To:.*mchsi.com*

> * drop X-Complaints-To:.*rcn.net*

> * drop X-Complaints-To:.*usenetserver.com*
> * drop X-Complaints-To:.*http://netreport.virginmedia.com*

> * drop X-Complaints-To:.*bigpond.net.au*

These rules will produce a lot of false positives. Some of the other
rules in this section may also produce false positives, though I
haven't noticed any non-sporge posts coming from the specified
servers.

It's much safer to filter on NNTP-Posting-Host if it's available,
because it identifies the poster, not the server.

ing #
> # Eliminate MI5 sporge
> * drop Subject:.*[Mm]*[Ii]*5.*

I think you mean
Subject:.*[Mm].*[Ii].*5.*

Your current rule will drop anything with the numeral "5", since
"[Mm]*" means "zero or more occurrences of M or m".

> # Eliminate HTML messages
> * drop Subject:=?ISO*

That won't eliminate HTML messages, but will eliminate some (not all)
MIME-encoded subject lines.

If you want to drop HTML, I suggest using "Content-Type: text/html"
and possibly also "Content-Type: multipart/alternative".

> #
> # Drop cmsg cancel messages
> * Drop Subject:.*[Cc][Ms][Ss][Gg].*
> * Drop Control:.*cancel.*

You probably need only the first of these, and you probably don't need to
match upper-case "CMSG".

--
PJR :-)