Gregory, et al: On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 02:07:23PM -0800, Gregory A. Gilliss wrote: > Okay, I've enjoyed about as much of this as I can stand >-) > > Here's a new vulnerability: filtering out annoying peoples' postings > on mailing lists. For purposes of example, we'll use FD and Bipin. > (BTW, I did not come up with this, I'm just relaying it for educational > purposes only etc): > > Let's say that I have concluded that any post from Bipin is a waste of > bandwidth. The following course of action keeps the bandwidth wasters' > postings to FD from showing up in my inbox: > > 1) install procmail (if you don't already use it) > 2) touch ~/.procmailrc (see above) > 3) include the following procmail rule in ~/.procmailrc: > > :0 > * ^X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * ? formail -x"From:" -x"From" -x"Sender:" | egrep -is -f $HOME/.mutt/blacklist. > fd > /dev/null
/* snip */ as with perl, there's more than one way to do it. Here's what I've had in place for some time: :0: # Luz3rz L1zt * ^From:.*(other_people_snipped_to_avoid_insulting_anyone_for_some_reason|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Luz3rz_L1zt I too get to see the replies where I want them, but anything from Blipin (or whatever his name is..) and a few select others :-) goes where I don't need to be bothered maybe more often than once a week, say... - John -- "Most people don't type their own logfiles; but, what do I care?" - John Sage: InfoSec Groupie - ABCD, EFGH, IJKL, EmEnOh, Pplus+, Mminus- - ATTENTION: this entire message is privileged communication, intended for the sole use of its recipients only. If you read it even though you know you aren't supposed to, you're a poopy-head. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
