Spam died down after Usenet Google Groups paused, but recent years (mostly before) there sometimes had been massive spam almost like 1990s (Eternal September, AOL, 'me too', beginning of commercialisation). A large number of newsgroups seemed to have been targetted for automated spamming with different random identities on each post. In rare cases this is ongoing.
One can select several newsgroups and get headers, and select several messages and mark them (un)read, but seems one can't select several messages and ignore authors (don't know if it works ignoring threads). Since I've had to delete some ~/pan2/* periodically due to critical bugs (including broken killfile) I've had to restart killfile several times as blank. I'm now left with redoing tens thousands 'ignore author' across NNTP/Usenet. It'd be nice to be able to select a few pages of spam authors (some newsgroups had that much in a row) and just ignore them all everywhere permanently. Of course, one might want confirmation, which might be best by showing subject lines of each ignore to double-check nothing relevant gets accidentally excluded. Is PAN more under just maintenance now, or might more efficiant mass- antispam/-kill/-plonk features be doable sometday? _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
