MCBastos wrote:
Interviewed by CNN on 24/03/2012 22:41, Beauregard T. Shagnasty told the
world:
PhillipJones wrote:
I guess I could blacklist gmail.com and yahoo.com problem is there
might be some legit posting.
No, you should blacklist (filter out) Google Groups, the source of nearly
all Usenet spam. Real people use Gmail and Yahoo addresses, so that is
not a good idea.
http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/
I had a look at that... and at this page:
http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/filters_ex2.html
it's claimed that Thunderbird/Seamonkey is unable to filter on
Message-ID. That may be true on the default setup (I'm not sure, it has
been *so long* since I started a profile from scratch..) but it's not
completely true. First, it's possible to create custom headers as
explained here:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_Filters
There are two ways to do news filtering (actual;ly NNTP protocol filtering). One
is using the set of headers provided by the "overview" program, which includes
only certain headers rather than all, and which can be used without downloading
the article. The other is to download the article complete, and look at all
headers and the body. I don't think Seamonkey does that.
This limits the headers to those in overview, which includes the Message-ID
header. Note that other headers can be provided if the server is configured to
do so, but assume most aren't. So you can filter on Message-ID, but AFAIK not
totally arbitrary headers.
(I dimly remember having to do *something* to get that option to set up
custom headers. Maybe they are/used to be hidden by default, and I had
to change some about:config setting?)
And then, for even more options, there's FiltaQuilla:
http://mesquilla.com/extensions/filtaquilla/
Hope this helps, I spent about 20 years running news servers for major companies
and ISPs, it was a fun time and great technical forum before porn took over.
--
Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
We are not out of the woods yet, but we know the direction and have
taken the first step. The steps are many, but finite in number, and if
we persevere we will reach our destination. -me, 2010
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