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Re: Stopping Sporge tutorial using NewsProxy (where do we get nfilter.dat)?
de M.L. 01/31/2008 03:22
>>>> # 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?
They don't work for me because my news provider doesn't let NewsProxy
filter on anything outside of overview.fmt.
> 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"?
I can't answer that. I copied the filter from an nfilter.dat file off
the Internet.