David E. Ross wrote:
On 1/12/11 5:36 PM, John wrote:
John wrote:
David E. Ross wrote:
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.
That sounds great but in what category do you put the NNTP posting host?
Seamonkey has a custom setting but when clicked on it just asks for a
'New Message Header'. What do I put in this box and what is added to the
larger entry box below it?
Thanks,
John
I found the answer in the help section, I was looking under general help
and didn't find it.
One question though, the example below is someone I would like to block
in a different newsgroup but the address looks odd:
NNTP-Posting-Host: 9TEqRaUN62VUuRWTWfCotg.user.speranza.aioe.org
Is this some sort of work around to what you suggested or just typical
of aioe?
Thanks,
John
They're using a domain rather than an IP address. It's not a registered
domain, so it must be internal to aioe.org. A domain like that is often
used for a broadband connection. Since aioe.org is not an ISP, however,
the domain is not for a broadband connection. It thus is likely a
temporary domain, possibly for a single use. I would filter on
"contains" (second term in the filter) and "aioe.org" (third term).
That is what I did. Have to wait and see if it works.
Thanks,
John
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