Wow, I'm noticing an extra 80-120 messages PER DAY lately that get
filtered out by my newsreader because they are from lame spamming
wintrolls. I'm sure it's a pain in the ass for you real Linux people to
have to wade through all that crap, so I thought I'd repost the filter
(score file) method to eliminate having to even see them. This applies to
the "Pan" newsreader that I use, although I believe that "slrn" uses a
very similar score file. Others may be able to adapt something that will
work with their newsreader.

Anyway, edit your score file to include something similar to this:

%BOS[*]
Score:: =-9999
Xref: advocacy
Xref: windows
Xref: microsoft
Xref: politics
Xref: conspiracy
%EOS

As you can probably guess, this filters out all posts that are crossposted
to any newsgroup containing any of the above words. The most effective
one is the word "advocacy", by the way. Add any other words that you'd
like to, of course. Hope this helps you enjoy the newsgroups again, in
spite of the wintroll asswipes who act like idiots. Good luck.

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On 2005-01-03, Dan C <youmustbejoking@invalid.lan> wrote:

> As you can probably guess, this filters out all posts that are crossposted
> to any newsgroup containing any of the above words. The most effective
> one is the word "advocacy".......

A more effective way is to use:

Xref: ":.*:"

.....which kills ANY crosspost.

nb

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Dan C wrote:

> Wow, I'm noticing an extra 80-120 messages PER DAY lately that get
> filtered out by my newsreader because they are from lame spamming
> wintrolls. I'm sure it's a pain in the ass for you real Linux people to
> have to wade through all that crap, so I thought I'd repost the filter
> (score file) method to eliminate having to even see them. This applies to
> the "Pan" newsreader that I use, although I believe that "slrn" uses a
> very similar score file. Others may be able to adapt something that will
> work with their newsreader.

Yeppers -- just like slrn. They can share a score file, in fact.

> Anyway, edit your score file to include something similar to this:

> %BOS
>[*]
> Score:: =-9999
> Xref: advocacy
> Xref: windows
> Xref: microsoft
> Xref: politics
> Xref: conspiracy
> %EOS

I'll add some of those -- I've been using windows and advocacy. As far
as political ravers and frothers go, I also use:

Subject: republican
Subject: democrat
Subject: bush
Subject: politic
Subject: econom
Subject: holocaust
Subject: iraq

And here are some others that someone <nodding at DCMoose> gave me
for trolls in general, nonspecific to Linux froups:

Message-ID: @anonymous
Message-ID: @dizum
Message-ID: @firenze
Message-ID: @gilgamesh
Message-ID: @paranoici
Message-ID: @remailer
Message-ID: @tatoo
Message-ID: @liberty
Message-ID: @cypher
Message-ID: @mixmaster
Message-ID: @mail.cypher
Message-ID: netvigator.com
From: postmaster
From: \<anon
From: remailer
From: \<alias
From: crypto
References: @gilgamesh
References: @tatooine


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Dan C wrote:
> Wow, I'm noticing an extra 80-120 messages PER DAY lately that get
> filtered out by my newsreader because they are from lame spamming
> wintrolls. I'm sure it's a pain in the ass for you real Linux people to
> have to wade through all that crap, so I thought I'd repost the filter
> (score file) method to eliminate having to even see them. This applies to
> the "Pan" newsreader that I use, although I believe that "slrn" uses a
> very similar score file. Others may be able to adapt something that will
> work with their newsreader.

[snip]

Thanks for this post. I'm currently using Thunderbird to read
newsgroups, since I usually already have it open for my e-mail. I like
it fine, but its filter is pretty wimpy. As best I can tell, you can
only filter the subject, sender and date fields. I don't see any way to
filter for cross-posts.

Can anyone suggest a good anti-troll, anti-spam strategy for reading
Usenet groups with Thunderbird?

On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 14:08:01 +0000,
raoul <rsnidjik@gmx.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Can anyone suggest a good anti-troll, anti-spam strategy for reading
> Usenet groups with Thunderbird?

A couple of suggestions:

anti-troll: Install a local server, which allows you to set up filtering
rules. I believe leafnode does this.

anti-spam: Use a usenet provider that has spam filtering. individual.net
is one such provider. They use cleanfeed with INN.

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Mark Hill

Mark Hill <mrhill@gmail.com.invalid> writes:

> A couple of suggestions:
>
> anti-troll: Install a local server, which allows you to set up filtering
> rules. I believe leafnode does this.

It does indeed :-)

> anti-spam: Use a usenet provider that has spam filtering. individual.net
> is one such provider. They use cleanfeed with INN.

and it seems to work very well indeed - only a very little of the latest
shit-storm has found its way through.



Glyn
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