Paul Furman wrote:
> Paul Allen wrote:
>> On Tue, 13 May 2008 11:42:46 -0500, Allen wrote:
>>
>>> Don Stauffer in Minnesota wrote:
>>>> I notice the spam flood has virtually disappeared from the other four
>>>> newsgroups I subscribe to. It only seems to continue on rpd.
>>>>
>>>> I know on one of my groups someone took action somehow to convert all
>>>> of those spam message titles to the word "spam", so it may be that
>>>> server administrators on host servers may have something to do with
>>>> overcoming the flood. Don't know why it is continuing on rpd, but it
>>>> would be nice if this group somehow follows what is happening on rest
>>>> of Usenet.
>>
>> Hmmm... Don apparently posts through Google Groups. I'm seeing
replies
>> to his thread, but nothing from him. Don, you need to find a better
>> Usenet feed. I'm not going to turn off my block on GG postings. I'm
>> seeing less than one spam message per week since I started filtering
>> messages posted from Google Groups.
>
> True. There isn't a whole lot of good content missed.
>
> If you want, it is possible to set it up so GG posts just get flagged in
> newsproxy then are marked as read in thunderbird. If nobody replies, you
> don't see single spams in 'threads with unread messages' view.
>
> nfilter.dat :
> * flag: From:*my-gg-friend-01@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> * flag: From:*my-gg-friend-02@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> * flag:|GG| Message-ID:*googlegroups*
>
> The above filters mark the Subject so it begins with |GG| (then use
> thunderbird to filter on the subject & mark it as read). The
> my-gg-friend email gets the subject flagged with an empty string
> (nothing happens) & escapes the kill file. Once a match is made, it
> stops executing on that message.
What's the advantage there, having newsproxy alter the Subject header and
then having TB hide the post -- over simply making that third rule a GG
*kill* that never even has to go to TB?
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Blinky
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