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

de Peter J Ross 01/31/2008 01:13

In news.software.readers on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:31:16 GMT, M.L.
<me@privacy.invalid> wrote:

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

NB: if using regular expressions, as in the rest of the suggested
filters, this should use "=?ISO.*", apart from everything else that's
questionable about it.

>> 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".
>
> True, but unfortunately the Content-Type: field is outside of
> overview.fmt, so using Subject: is as close as some users can get to
> trying to eliminate HTML posts.

NNTP-Posting-Host: and X-Complaints-To: are also not part of a
standard overview database, but they're used in the suggested
nfilter.dat. Don't they work?

I can't think of any reason why an HTML post would be more likely to
have QP or Base64 MIME encoding in the Subject than any other kind of
post. What about plain text posts that have, for example, "Subject:
Forté Agent"?

--
PJR :-)