CRM: solutions to our problem?

Sounds good. You wouldn't have a thread title, would you? Would save me
from having to download umpteen zillion threads in my reader. Google's
interface would make it easier.

-- Gordon

Gordon:

As the original post said, the thread is identified as "Who did it".
The post of interest is from Steve Ackman:

 >   In slrn:
 >
 > 1)  Hit the letter 'k'
 > 2)  Hit the letter 'e'
 > 3)  type "NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.35.108.103"
 > 4)  They all disappear

which is pretty cryptic.  There is a follow up post from
William Noble:

 > ok, I had to look it up - slrn is here http://www.slrn.org/   from reading,
 > it looks like no one is maintaining the probram - the "last check" column is
 > 2004 for most things, though the mac OS is 2006

The DoN. Nichols Post is a little more informative:

 >     Weren't all of these posted with the same "NNTP-Posting-Host: "
 > IP?  That should be an easy way to zap them all -- as long as your
 > newsreader allows killfiling on that header.

In summary, you need a news reader that has "kill file" support
and the ability to select an arbitrary header.  For the last
sporge on rec.crafts.metalworking, the header to kill file is:
"NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.35.108.103".

For my particular newsreader (Thunderbird), I've never been
able to get a permanent killfile to work.  I sort of doubt
that Thunderbird has arbitrary header filtering (I could be
wrong; I've done no research on the topic.)  Maybe somebody who
knows more can illuminate my admitted ignorance on this topic.

-Wayne

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Wayne C. Gramlich wrote:

They appear to be from a lot more places than one IP! Perhaps the lucky
person who posted the thread already had spam filtering put on by his/her
isp.


I'm in the same boat as you! Can only filter by Subject, Date and From
headers O-o. Strange because you can filter E-mail with whatever you like!

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[snip...snip...]


When a news client retrieves the headers, all it will typically get are
Path, From, Newsgroups, Subject, Date, Organization, and Message-ID.
Filtering on the body as well as on the other header lines is possible
but that would require downloading the complete feed for the group.

Nowadays, with broadband more available, that's not impossible, although
I'm not aware of any common clients that implement it.

The Path header line is probably a good candidate for sporge filtering;
just need to find a client that supports it -- or grab the Thunderbird
SVN snapshot and add it. ;-)

--
Rich Webb     Norfolk, VA

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Rich Webb wrote:

I might just try that. How well does the filtering work on the pre-release?

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BTSOOM. I'm just running the 1.5.0.13 release version and the usenet
filtering is, ah, not one of its strong points; just subject, from, and
date.

Forte's Agent newsreader (which I use on my home machine) has much
better filtering (regex!) but even it is limited to author and subject
headers.

--
Rich Webb     Norfolk, VA

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Rich Webb wrote:

Woops - I thought you meant to grab the SVN and add headers in the
configuration dialogue; never mind. I don't really have time to
contribute at the moment - maybe sometime.

I love Agent apart from the fact that I like all the things I check for
daily all in one place - RSS, E-mail and Usenet. It was just a hassle
launching another app really.

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D'oh!!

-- Gordon

why is comp.robotics.misc the subject of this garbage?

in the past 6 months, there has been little activity.

the "sporge" isn't asking for money.  It is just garbage.
the posts don't contain opinions, information, etc..  A
disgruntled youth?

Rich