July 29th 05, 08:54 PM
CArol is getting kill filed across the board, since she refuse to use a
filter, it seems she will be filterd out. LOL.
poor newbies however. Inbreeding will kill the group no matter how well
a filter is put up.
solution: talk.free.newsservers moderated.
Mike Dee wrote:
> Maxx Pollare > wrote in
> :
>
> > Reality folded in on itself, and somewhere the following words
> > from "Nobody" apeared in history:
> >
> >> A few questions if you don't mind, I'm new at regular expressions
> >> and xnews scorefiles.
>
> To the OP, if you started using Xnews, then you could use these
> scorefiles. Gravity cannot make much sense of these. Using Xnews does
> not mean you have to give up Gravity, nor will you lose any of
> Gravity's settings etc.
> Also, as in regards to remailers (and this score file), these filters
> are specific to this NG only, they do not get used outside of AFN
> (although they can be modified to do so).
>
> >>> %%%
> >>> [^alt\.free\.newsservers$]
> >>>
> >>> Score:: -9999
> >>> Message-ID: @(ann?on|diz|mail\.cyp|mixm|paran|pun)
> >>
> >> This one I guess is aimed at filtering out anyone using a
> >> remailer... I'll be leaving that one out.
> >
> > Tough luck... Some of us perma-kill remailer/anon "sewer server"
> > posts because they are so badly abused by trolls these days.
>
> Rather, this control is centered on anyone with those terms in their
> MID, not specifically remailers. Although there is a good chance they
> do trip remailers.
>
> >>> Newsgroups: alt\.[2achpr]
> >>
> >> This one I haven't a clue about... what's it looking for?
> >
> > Any news groups that have "alt." in thier name with the next
> > charictor in the set "2achpr"... Provided your server can deal
> > with XHDRs.
> >
> >>> Subject: \bcarol\b|\bde\b|\bfred\b|rec\.|\brobb\b
> >>
> >> kill troll subjects?
> >
> > "Group Specific" trolling subject kills...
> >
> > Personaly those "\b" tages are a waste of code, since...
> > A) you'll rarely get a mismatch on names.
> > B) all it takes to break them is one charictor.
>
> This is not correct, Maxx. The \b tags do serve a specific purpose
> here, because it deals with subject matter only, not names per se, if
> the subject is about any of those people and not AFN subject matter,
> then you don't get to see the posts. It also does not prevent posts
> from those people, it only blocks posts *about* those people based on
> Subject.
>
> > A better set would be:
> >
> > Subject:
> > Carol|Cracklin|cross\W?post|Fred|Jabriol|Maxx|McKo i|off\W?topic|
> > Robb|\btroll|wolf
>
> With regards to the names used in my "Subject" filter the extra names
> you are proposing here are superfluous, they get stopped in Xref,
> Newsgroups, and MID (no need to mention their names). Yes Maxx, I was
> trying out a new newsclient the other day (XPN) and loaded up AFN
> unfiltered, I noticed all the Maxx spork posts being made, amongst the
> Jabber/Carol dross :-P - My current Xnews filters do not load any of
> these rubbish posts.
>
> >>> Xref:
> >>> alt\.(a|bin|conf|fan|fla|hack|hum|pri|relig|talk\. |use(.*)koo)
> >>> Xref: ^((chile|misc|sci|soc|talk)\.|news\.a|rec\.p)
> >>
> >> kill crosposts to certain groups i think.. can't quite make out
> >> which one's your're trying to eliminate though.
> >
> > That would be Mike's an attempt at killing off the crossposts by
> > killing each new cross-posted group as they are use, and where my
> > own views on the matter differ from Mike's...
>
> Not so, to an astute eye, one can see they are listed in alphabetical
> order ;-)
> Besides I have no intention of killing off all xposts, only ones that
> have become a problem in AFN.
>
> > I prefer kill off all crosposts first, increase the # of
> > cross-post alowed untill only the trolled threads are
> > "killed-off", and then add any exceptions to the rule. Any
> > leftover garbage is then cleaned up with a subject filter, or a
> > dedicated "X-post-to" filter, or both.
>
> In some cases, posts to *any* NG outside AFN is a problem. As I said, I
> don't wish to stop all xposts. I will re-write my Xref filters later
> on, however, in Xnews at least, they do a "chunky" job well enough. I
> think I see a "better" way to do it, but I'm kind of lazy, too :)
>
> > Any exceptions are always easy to add higher up in the filter set.
> >
> >
> > See the weblink in my SIG for some more examples.
>
> --
> dee
filter, it seems she will be filterd out. LOL.
poor newbies however. Inbreeding will kill the group no matter how well
a filter is put up.
solution: talk.free.newsservers moderated.
Mike Dee wrote:
> Maxx Pollare > wrote in
> :
>
> > Reality folded in on itself, and somewhere the following words
> > from "Nobody" apeared in history:
> >
> >> A few questions if you don't mind, I'm new at regular expressions
> >> and xnews scorefiles.
>
> To the OP, if you started using Xnews, then you could use these
> scorefiles. Gravity cannot make much sense of these. Using Xnews does
> not mean you have to give up Gravity, nor will you lose any of
> Gravity's settings etc.
> Also, as in regards to remailers (and this score file), these filters
> are specific to this NG only, they do not get used outside of AFN
> (although they can be modified to do so).
>
> >>> %%%
> >>> [^alt\.free\.newsservers$]
> >>>
> >>> Score:: -9999
> >>> Message-ID: @(ann?on|diz|mail\.cyp|mixm|paran|pun)
> >>
> >> This one I guess is aimed at filtering out anyone using a
> >> remailer... I'll be leaving that one out.
> >
> > Tough luck... Some of us perma-kill remailer/anon "sewer server"
> > posts because they are so badly abused by trolls these days.
>
> Rather, this control is centered on anyone with those terms in their
> MID, not specifically remailers. Although there is a good chance they
> do trip remailers.
>
> >>> Newsgroups: alt\.[2achpr]
> >>
> >> This one I haven't a clue about... what's it looking for?
> >
> > Any news groups that have "alt." in thier name with the next
> > charictor in the set "2achpr"... Provided your server can deal
> > with XHDRs.
> >
> >>> Subject: \bcarol\b|\bde\b|\bfred\b|rec\.|\brobb\b
> >>
> >> kill troll subjects?
> >
> > "Group Specific" trolling subject kills...
> >
> > Personaly those "\b" tages are a waste of code, since...
> > A) you'll rarely get a mismatch on names.
> > B) all it takes to break them is one charictor.
>
> This is not correct, Maxx. The \b tags do serve a specific purpose
> here, because it deals with subject matter only, not names per se, if
> the subject is about any of those people and not AFN subject matter,
> then you don't get to see the posts. It also does not prevent posts
> from those people, it only blocks posts *about* those people based on
> Subject.
>
> > A better set would be:
> >
> > Subject:
> > Carol|Cracklin|cross\W?post|Fred|Jabriol|Maxx|McKo i|off\W?topic|
> > Robb|\btroll|wolf
>
> With regards to the names used in my "Subject" filter the extra names
> you are proposing here are superfluous, they get stopped in Xref,
> Newsgroups, and MID (no need to mention their names). Yes Maxx, I was
> trying out a new newsclient the other day (XPN) and loaded up AFN
> unfiltered, I noticed all the Maxx spork posts being made, amongst the
> Jabber/Carol dross :-P - My current Xnews filters do not load any of
> these rubbish posts.
>
> >>> Xref:
> >>> alt\.(a|bin|conf|fan|fla|hack|hum|pri|relig|talk\. |use(.*)koo)
> >>> Xref: ^((chile|misc|sci|soc|talk)\.|news\.a|rec\.p)
> >>
> >> kill crosposts to certain groups i think.. can't quite make out
> >> which one's your're trying to eliminate though.
> >
> > That would be Mike's an attempt at killing off the crossposts by
> > killing each new cross-posted group as they are use, and where my
> > own views on the matter differ from Mike's...
>
> Not so, to an astute eye, one can see they are listed in alphabetical
> order ;-)
> Besides I have no intention of killing off all xposts, only ones that
> have become a problem in AFN.
>
> > I prefer kill off all crosposts first, increase the # of
> > cross-post alowed untill only the trolled threads are
> > "killed-off", and then add any exceptions to the rule. Any
> > leftover garbage is then cleaned up with a subject filter, or a
> > dedicated "X-post-to" filter, or both.
>
> In some cases, posts to *any* NG outside AFN is a problem. As I said, I
> don't wish to stop all xposts. I will re-write my Xref filters later
> on, however, in Xnews at least, they do a "chunky" job well enough. I
> think I see a "better" way to do it, but I'm kind of lazy, too :)
>
> > Any exceptions are always easy to add higher up in the filter set.
> >
> >
> > See the weblink in my SIG for some more examples.
>
> --
> dee