Using Nfilter to filter all Google.com posts?

In article <[email protected]>, Doug
Miller <[email protected]> wrote:

> Anybody else post thru Google?

I set up a Google filter earlier this evening and caugh at least half a
dozen legitimate posts so I disabled it.

However, given the traffic tonight I may just have to say "sorry" to
the good guys and put it back into play.

NB: Not using Nfilter.

djb

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>>Sucks that this guy is ruining it for those of us who use Google news
>>(I've used it since back when it was Deja)...
>>
>There may be other ways of dealing with the problem, besides dropping
>everything that comes thru Google. Nfilter supports scoring, for instance, and
>that could perhaps be used to separate the regulars who post thru Google from
>the trolls.
>
>Anybody else post thru Google?

I use it from work. Having NFilter get rid of crosspostings has been
blocking most of this junk.

* drop xref:*:*:*:*

I agree that using nfilters scoring is probably the best way to go.
-David

[email protected] (Mike Reed) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Sucks that this guy is ruining it for those of us who use Google news
> (I've used it since back when it was Deja)...
>

Agreed. I post through Google because it's portable AND free. I work
in a large organization and it's not always clear where I'll be when I
check-the-wreck at lunch time; but most any terminal will have a
browser. That said, Google's interface has become almost unusable due
to the volume of idiot's. Looks like I'm going back to a conventional
news server -- maybe I can call it "retro" and pretend I'm back in the
80's! The whole concept of DeJa was just too cool even though their
interface lacked a lot...

hex
-30-

In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Mike Reed) wrote:
>Sucks that this guy is ruining it for those of us who use Google news
>(I've used it since back when it was Deja)...
>
There may be other ways of dealing with the problem, besides dropping
everything that comes thru Google. Nfilter supports scoring, for instance, and
that could perhaps be used to separate the regulars who post thru Google from
the trolls.

Anybody else post thru Google?

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)

Larry,

I want to get rid of the Phil Forskin guy. I am not a computer person. Can
you tell me what I need to put in Nfilter?

Thanks,

David.

In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] wrote:
>On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:13:20 GMT, bonomi@c-ns. (Robert Bonomi) wrote:
>
>
>>A 'higher precision' approach is to use the "NNTP-Posting-Host" header, and
>>dump anything where the first 3 numbers match.
>
>Can you tell me how to make this work
>
>I wrote a rule that says this:
>* drop NNTP-Posting-Host:123.456.*
>
>and i cant get it to work... any ideas?
>

First of all, Nfilter reads its filter file only at startup. If you added this
filter after starting the program, it won't see it. Click on Stop, then Start,
to make it read the filters again..

If that didn't do the trick, click on Edit | Configuration | General, and make
sure that the box next to "Enable Regular Expressions" is checked, then stop
and start as above.

If it still doesn't work, try this instead
* drop NNTP-Posting-Host:.*123\.456\..*
then stop and start as above.

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)

In article <[email protected]>,
Doug Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Mike Reed) wrote:
>>Sucks that this guy is ruining it for those of us who use Google news
>>(I've used it since back when it was Deja)...
>>
>There may be other ways of dealing with the problem, besides dropping
>everything that comes thru Google. Nfilter supports scoring, for instance, and
>that could perhaps be used to separate the regulars who post thru Google from
>the trolls.
>
>Anybody else post thru Google?


A 'higher precision' approach is to use the "NNTP-Posting-Host" header, and
dump anything where the first 3 numbers match.


I currently drop anything that is excessively cross-posted, and have
three of those address-ranges blocked.

The only 'noise' I see is 'delayed' reponses to trollish posts coming out
of those three blocked address-ranges.

As with woodworking, "having the right tools is half the job" (or *more*) <grin>

In article <[email protected]>, "David F. Eisan" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Larry,
>
>I want to get rid of the Phil Forskin guy. I am not a computer person. Can
>you tell me what I need to put in Nfilter?
>
Hey, David, I posted that for you last night already. In case you missed it:

rec.woodworking drop message-id:.*@posting.google.com

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)

Sucks that this guy is ruining it for those of us who use Google news
(I've used it since back when it was Deja)...

[email protected] (Doug Miller) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> In article <[email protected]>, "David F. Eisan" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >Larry,
> >
> >I want to get rid of the Phil Forskin guy. I am not a computer person. Can
> >you tell me what I need to put in Nfilter?
> >
> Hey, David, I posted that for you last night already. In case you missed it:
>
> rec.woodworking drop message-id:.*@posting.google.com

In article <7Wmgb.42337$ko%[email protected]>, "David F. Eisan" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Can anyone tell me how to use Nfilter to filter all posts from Google.com?
>
One of these oughta work:

Organization:http://groups.google.com
Message-ID:.*@posting.google.com
X-Complaints-To:[email protected]
X-Trace:posting.google.com.*

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)

On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 23:30:11 GMT, "David F. Eisan"
<[email protected]> pixelated:

>Can anyone tell me how to use Nfilter to filter all posts from Google.com?

Close your newsreader, open Nfilter, select Edit/Filters
from the menu, and type Google.com instead of sexzilla.net

Also see:

http://nfilter.org/faq.html#2.3

3.2 How do I filter someone who keeps morphing?
If someone morphs to avoid kill-files, then you need to find something
consistent about their headers that doesn't change from post to post.
You may need to combine two or more common elements in their header to
achieve this.

Say I changed my From field on every post, but you know I always post
from sexzilla and I always post with Agent 1.5/32.451. You also know
that nobody else on sexzilla uses this version of Agent. In this case
you could filter me using the rule:

* FLAG:KILL-FILE NNTP-Posting-Host:*.sexzilla.net X-Newsreader:*32.451

See also 3.8 Can I combine filters?

In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Doug Miller) wrote:
>In article <7Wmgb.42337$ko%[email protected]>, "David
> F. Eisan" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>Can anyone tell me how to use Nfilter to filter all posts from Google.com?
>>
>One of these oughta work:
>
>Organization:http://groups.google.com

I'll confirm that this one works:
>Message-ID:.*@posting.google.com
rec.woodworking drop message-id:.*@posting.google.com

>X-Complaints-To:[email protected]
>X-Trace:posting.google.com.*
>

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)

On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:13:20 GMT, bonomi@c-ns. (Robert Bonomi) wrote:


>A 'higher precision' approach is to use the "NNTP-Posting-Host" header, and
>dump anything where the first 3 numbers match.

Can you tell me how to make this work

I wrote a rule that says this:
* drop NNTP-Posting-Host:123.456.*

and i cant get it to work... any ideas?

dickm

On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 12:02:52 GMT, "David F. Eisan"
<[email protected]> pixelated:

>Larry,
>
>I want to get rid of the Phil Forskin guy. I am not a computer person. Can
>you tell me what I need to put in Nfilter?

You went to his sites, didn't you, silly boy? See Doug's
post for the answers unless this, too, was a troll.