JT's Ghost wrote:
> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>
> IIRC, Paul isn't outright kill-filing all posts from GG. So my best
> guess would be that he is using the above to "white-list" those posters
> (using GG) that make valid contributions to the newsgroups.
In theory yes though my white list is awfully short in practice so far.
The main advantage is I *can* see GG posts in a thread which sometimes
helps make sense of a thread, or at least shows which threads originate
from GG messages so I can quickly evaluate whether to ignore the thread.
Sometimes a GG poster will reply to me and I would have only seen that
if someone else replies to them, now I can read the original message. I
will generally miss them, but they are there if it matters.
> FWIW, I see all the spam posted (color highlighted) from GG... Yes, I
> could just kill it based on the Message ID line, which would make my
> filter file much smaller. RPD does tend to get more spam than some of
> the other photo groups I read.
>
>
> - JT
>
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all google groups messages filtered due to spam
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