On 1/12/11 3:57 PM, John wrote:
> David E. Ross wrote:
>> On 1/12/11 2:15 PM, John wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there any software out there that makes it easier to send news group
>>> trolls to a kill file? Seamonkey does have some blocking features but
>>> the rules offered seem to be very easy to get around by those who
>>> constantly change their name or even worse pose as someone you would
>>> normally *want* to hear from.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> John
>>
>> Does not SeaMonkey's mail-news component have the same filtering
>> capabilities as Thunderbird? With Thunderbird, I can create a filter on
>> any set of message headers, including headers indicating the application
>> used to send the message and in what news service the message was sent.
>
>
> Yes but I want something more powerful and easier to use. You have
> noticed I am sure a certain poster who constantly changes their name
> and/or hides under the name of another poster. What I want to do is
> right click on the troll post and kill based on the sender's origin.
> Basically a 'whois' type of kill based on the the originating IP address
> that would defeat a troll's attempt to change their name or pose as
> someone else.
>
> A 'view' and 'message source' doesn't give sufficient information (as
> far as I can determine) to truly kill file the individual. Perhaps I am
> missing something and if so please inform me how to better use the
> information.
>
> Thanks,
> John
With your message selected in Thunderbird, I selected [View > Message
Source] from the menu bar. I saw the header field:
NNTP-Posting-Host: 72.95.161.200
72.95.161.200 is the IP address for the unregistered domain
[namepool-72-95-161-200.pitbpa.east.verizon.net]. I'm guessing that you
have a broadband connection to the Internet through Verizon. Although
IP addresses for such connections might be dynamic, they really do not
change often. (I've been unsuccessully trying to change mine for a
week.) If you run IP Chicken at <http://www.ipchicken.com/>, I think
you will see 72.95.161.200 is your own external IP address.
Thus, I could create a filter to block your messages by creating a
custom header for NNTP-Posting-Host and filtering on the value
72.95.161.200.
--
David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>
On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages
posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent
because of spam from that source.
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