I know that there is an abundunce of Computer Geeks and NG Wizards out there
in Woodworking Land, Soooo
Could ya possibly dust the sawdust off for a moment and let me know what is
the best filter I can get to keep the slimeballs off of my screen, It has
got so that i'm not sure if I'm on a woodworking site or a porn site.
Thanks
George
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 11:18:59 -0700, "George M. Kazaka"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>I know that there is an abundunce of Computer Geeks and NG Wizards out there
>in Woodworking Land, Soooo
>Could ya possibly dust the sawdust off for a moment and let me know what is
>the best filter I can get to keep the slimeballs off of my screen, It has
>got so that i'm not sure if I'm on a woodworking site or a porn site.
>
>Thanks
>George
>
Agent. Get rid of OE.
Takes about 10 minutes to get a nice, clean look at the messages
again. And you can filter out by domain address...a big time saver.
Have a nice week...
Trent
Certified breast self-exam subcontractor.
In article <[email protected]>, "Owen Davies" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Doug Miller, or anyone: Has anyone used NFilter with XP Pro? It's not
>mentioned on the Web site, but I'd hope that NFilter will work with it if it
>works with NT.
>
No idea, Owen. I use Win98... sorry. Anyone else?
--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)
Doug Miller wrote:
> No idea, Owen. I use Win98... sorry. Anyone else?
Thanks anyway. No doubt I should just install it and see, but I am always a
little wary of putting software I'm not sure of into a system that's working
well as it is. Comes from years of dealing with Win95 and '98. (Don't
hardly seem right using a Windows machine that doesn't freeze more than once
or twice a month. It ain't nachurl.)
Owen
In article <[email protected]>, "George M. Kazaka" <[email protected]> wrote:
>I know that there is an abundunce of Computer Geeks and NG Wizards out there
>in Woodworking Land, Soooo
>Could ya possibly dust the sawdust off for a moment and let me know what is
>the best filter I can get to keep the slimeballs off of my screen, It has
>got so that i'm not sure if I'm on a woodworking site or a porn site.
>
NewsProxy aka NFilter, available at www.nfilter.org
Search the archives at Google Groups for information about how to install and
configure it. Those instructions have been posted here repeatedly over the
last couple of months.
--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)
Thanks All,
I think that gives me just about enough to confuse me,
I'll just go into my cave and sort it all out <G>
George
"Tom Watson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 11:18:59 -0700, "George M. Kazaka"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >I know that there is an abundunce of Computer Geeks and NG Wizards out
there
> >in Woodworking Land, Soooo
> >Could ya possibly dust the sawdust off for a moment and let me know what
is
> >the best filter I can get to keep the slimeballs off of my screen, It has
> >got so that i'm not sure if I'm on a woodworking site or a porn site.
>
> George:
>
> You might want to consider reading the group on a newsreader like
>
> http://xnews.newsguy.com/
>
> As well as using a filter like
>
> www.nfilter.org
>
> I use Nfilter with Agent and the only thing I put in my .DAT file is
>
> * drop xref:*:*:*
>
> Which tells it to ignore crossposts from more than three groups. I
> use three groups because I also subscribe to the two binary
> woodworking newsgroups. If you only read the Wreck you can delete the
> last two asterisks and periods.
>
> For the non-crossposting trolls you will have to filter within your
> newsreader by author or subject. I have been filtering by author and
> it works well - with only a bit of daily maintenance.
>
> I've never used OE and so can not give you any advice on filtering
> within it.
>
>
> Regards, Tom
> Thomas J. Watson-Cabinetmaker
> Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania
> http://users.snip.net/~tjwatson
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 11:18:59 -0700, "George M. Kazaka"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>I know that there is an abundunce of Computer Geeks and NG Wizards out there
>in Woodworking Land, Soooo
>Could ya possibly dust the sawdust off for a moment and let me know what is
>the best filter I can get to keep the slimeballs off of my screen, It has
>got so that i'm not sure if I'm on a woodworking site or a porn site.
George:
You might want to consider reading the group on a newsreader like
http://xnews.newsguy.com/
As well as using a filter like
www.nfilter.org
I use Nfilter with Agent and the only thing I put in my .DAT file is
* drop xref:*:*:*
Which tells it to ignore crossposts from more than three groups. I
use three groups because I also subscribe to the two binary
woodworking newsgroups. If you only read the Wreck you can delete the
last two asterisks and periods.
For the non-crossposting trolls you will have to filter within your
newsreader by author or subject. I have been filtering by author and
it works well - with only a bit of daily maintenance.
I've never used OE and so can not give you any advice on filtering
within it.
Regards, Tom
Thomas J. Watson-Cabinetmaker
Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania
http://users.snip.net/~tjwatson
Tom,
I use XP. I tried NFilter a couple of months back without success.
Everything seemed OK, but the shit was still coming through and nothing was
appearing in the "Dropped Articles" bin. I assumed it was an incompatibility
with XP and gave up.
However, inspired by your post, I've just had another go. Dunno what I've
done differently installation and configuration-wise this time, but I
deleted and reset the "Wreck", reloaded all the messages, and, what do you
know, all of the trolling assholes and their crossposting hangers-on have
gone into the NFilter bin, and the wreck now looks like it used to. Sure
there are still assholes there, but at least they're *our* own homegrown
assholes :))
Thanks for the encouragement to give it one more try. To those people who
haven't got NFilter to work yet, I'd say that it's not a particularly
user-friendly piece of kit, but if you follow David Eisan's instructions in
the FAQ and persevere with it, it's well worth the effort.
Cheers,
Frank
"Tom Watson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 23:04:29 GMT, "Owen Davies"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Doug Miller, or anyone: Has anyone used NFilter with XP Pro? It's not
> >mentioned on the Web site, but I'd hope that NFilter will work with it if
it
> >works with NT.
>
> I have one Win XP Pro box in the house and two Win 98SE boxes.
>
> Nfilter works well on all of them but newsproxy.exe does bail out on
> occasion (measured in hundreds of hours of uptime) - I have not found
> this to be a significant deterrent to using it.
>
> (I am curious as to why it goes belly up once in a while, though)
>
> With a simple crossposting filter in place I see little of the
> nonsense that is posted to the group by the trolls.
>
> Author level filtering takes care of the rest, although I often have
> to apply new filters in this way on a daily basis.
>
> I maintain a parallel, unfiltered instance of Agent on my laptop and
> every so often will look into it to see what I'm missing.
>
> It is a brief look, but makes me glad that I read the group through
> filters.
>
>
> Regards, Tom
> Thomas J. Watson-Cabinetmaker
> Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania
> http://users.snip.net/~tjwatson
Thanks for the input. I think in my case it was the "Enable Regular
Expressions" which might have been the problem. I certainly don't recollect
it from my last foray into NFilter.
Cheers
Frank
<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Frank McVey <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >Tom,
> >
> >I use XP. I tried NFilter a couple of months back without success.
> >Everything seemed OK, but the shit was still coming through and nothing
was
> >appearing in the "Dropped Articles" bin. I assumed it was an
incompatibility
> >with XP and gave up.
>
> The most common problems are:
> 1) blank lines in the nfilter.dat file,
> 2) using "regular expression" filters, _without_ 'enable regular
expressions'
> enabled in the config screen. or vice-versa.
> The syntax of the two styles of filters is *not* very compatible
> Note: 'regular expression' filters are *MUCH* more powerful,
allowing
> you to do a _lot_ of things in a single filter. As a result of
> bing that powerful, they _are_ considerably more 'arcane', and
> the learning curve is fairly steep.
> >
> >However, inspired by your post, I've just had another go. Dunno what
I've
> >done differently installation and configuration-wise this time, but I
> >deleted and reset the "Wreck", reloaded all the messages, and, what do
you
> >know, all of the trolling assholes and their crossposting hangers-on have
> >gone into the NFilter bin, and the wreck now looks like it used to. Sure
> >there are still assholes there, but at least they're *our* own homegrown
> >assholes :))
> >
> >Thanks for the encouragement to give it one more try. To those people
who
> >haven't got NFilter to work yet, I'd say that it's not a particularly
> >user-friendly piece of kit, but if you follow David Eisan's instructions
in
> >the FAQ and persevere with it, it's well worth the effort.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Frank
> >
> >
> >
> >"Tom Watson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> >news:[email protected]...
> >> On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 23:04:29 GMT, "Owen Davies"
> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> >Doug Miller, or anyone: Has anyone used NFilter with XP Pro? It's
not
> >> >mentioned on the Web site, but I'd hope that NFilter will work with it
if
> >it
> >> >works with NT.
> >>
> >> I have one Win XP Pro box in the house and two Win 98SE boxes.
> >>
> >> Nfilter works well on all of them but newsproxy.exe does bail out on
> >> occasion (measured in hundreds of hours of uptime) - I have not found
> >> this to be a significant deterrent to using it.
> >>
> >> (I am curious as to why it goes belly up once in a while, though)
> >>
> >> With a simple crossposting filter in place I see little of the
> >> nonsense that is posted to the group by the trolls.
> >>
> >> Author level filtering takes care of the rest, although I often have
> >> to apply new filters in this way on a daily basis.
> >>
> >> I maintain a parallel, unfiltered instance of Agent on my laptop and
> >> every so often will look into it to see what I'm missing.
> >>
> >> It is a brief look, but makes me glad that I read the group through
> >> filters.
> >>
> >>
> >> Regards, Tom
> >> Thomas J. Watson-Cabinetmaker
> >> Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania
> >> http://users.snip.net/~tjwatson
> >
> >
>
>
Nfilter works. www.nfilter.org
Once you get it fired up, there are already proven filters for the wrec
floating around on the back channels that someone will be glad to get to you
by e-mail. All you gotta do is ask ... (try to keep at least a half step
ahead of the trolls by keeping the proven filters OUT of the newsgroup)
--
www.e-woodshop.net
Last update: 9/21/03
"George M. Kazaka" wrote in message
> I know that there is an abundunce of Computer Geeks and NG Wizards out
there
> in Woodworking Land, Soooo
> Could ya possibly dust the sawdust off for a moment and let me know what
is
> the best filter I can get to keep the slimeballs off of my screen, It has
> got so that i'm not sure if I'm on a woodworking site or a porn site.
In article <[email protected]>, "Jon" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Doug,
>I'm running XP-Home Edition. If NFilter acts only as a local news proxy it
>just might work.
Right, that's all it is, just a proxy. Nfilter connects to the newsserver, and
your newsreader connects to Nfilter.
>I'm going to try it and let you know if I get the 'Blue Screen o Death' or
>not, OK?
Good luck, mon.
>Jon
>PS: OE ? If this doesn't work, maybe it's time for me to look for a
>different news reader.
If you're using OE, it's time to look for a different newsreader anyway,
whether or not this works. :-)
>
>"Owen Davies" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> Doug Miller, or anyone: Has anyone used NFilter with XP Pro? It's not
>> mentioned on the Web site, but I'd hope that NFilter will work with it if
>it
>> works with NT.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Owen Davies
>>
>>
>
>
--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)
I use it on XP Home, XP Pro, Win2K and Win2K Advanced Server. All work fine.
Greg
"Owen Davies" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Doug Miller, or anyone: Has anyone used NFilter with XP Pro? It's not
> mentioned on the Web site, but I'd hope that NFilter will work with it if
it
> works with NT.
In article <[email protected]>, "Jon" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Owen & Dave,
>I'm having 'some' trouble.
>WinXP stopped it twice before I selected "Run in compatability mode for:
>Windows 95".
>NFilter is now saying "OVR:09D0 WARNING: Header 'path' is unobtainable
>(can't be filtered) OVR:09D0 +006 WA".
That means your news server doesn't provide that header. Remove the filter(s)
that are attempting to filter on "path", or ignore the warning (it's
harmless).
--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)
In article <[email protected]>,
Frank McVey <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>Tom,
>
>I use XP. I tried NFilter a couple of months back without success.
>Everything seemed OK, but the shit was still coming through and nothing was
>appearing in the "Dropped Articles" bin. I assumed it was an incompatibility
>with XP and gave up.
The most common problems are:
1) blank lines in the nfilter.dat file,
2) using "regular expression" filters, _without_ 'enable regular expressions'
enabled in the config screen. or vice-versa.
The syntax of the two styles of filters is *not* very compatible
Note: 'regular expression' filters are *MUCH* more powerful, allowing
you to do a _lot_ of things in a single filter. As a result of
bing that powerful, they _are_ considerably more 'arcane', and
the learning curve is fairly steep.
>
>However, inspired by your post, I've just had another go. Dunno what I've
>done differently installation and configuration-wise this time, but I
>deleted and reset the "Wreck", reloaded all the messages, and, what do you
>know, all of the trolling assholes and their crossposting hangers-on have
>gone into the NFilter bin, and the wreck now looks like it used to. Sure
>there are still assholes there, but at least they're *our* own homegrown
>assholes :))
>
>Thanks for the encouragement to give it one more try. To those people who
>haven't got NFilter to work yet, I'd say that it's not a particularly
>user-friendly piece of kit, but if you follow David Eisan's instructions in
>the FAQ and persevere with it, it's well worth the effort.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Frank
>
>
>
>"Tom Watson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 23:04:29 GMT, "Owen Davies"
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >Doug Miller, or anyone: Has anyone used NFilter with XP Pro? It's not
>> >mentioned on the Web site, but I'd hope that NFilter will work with it if
>it
>> >works with NT.
>>
>> I have one Win XP Pro box in the house and two Win 98SE boxes.
>>
>> Nfilter works well on all of them but newsproxy.exe does bail out on
>> occasion (measured in hundreds of hours of uptime) - I have not found
>> this to be a significant deterrent to using it.
>>
>> (I am curious as to why it goes belly up once in a while, though)
>>
>> With a simple crossposting filter in place I see little of the
>> nonsense that is posted to the group by the trolls.
>>
>> Author level filtering takes care of the rest, although I often have
>> to apply new filters in this way on a daily basis.
>>
>> I maintain a parallel, unfiltered instance of Agent on my laptop and
>> every so often will look into it to see what I'm missing.
>>
>> It is a brief look, but makes me glad that I read the group through
>> filters.
>>
>>
>> Regards, Tom
>> Thomas J. Watson-Cabinetmaker
>> Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania
>> http://users.snip.net/~tjwatson
>
>
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:52:17 -0400, "Brent Beal" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
>"George M. Kazaka" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> I know that there is an abundunce of Computer Geeks and NG Wizards out
>there
>> in Woodworking Land, Soooo
>> Could ya possibly dust the sawdust off for a moment and let me know what
>is
>> the best filter I can get to keep the slimeballs off of my screen
>
>Hell, I get them blocked one way and they come back another way.Must be nice
>to be so bored.
>
Try a different news reader.
Have a nice week...
Trent
Certified breast self-exam subcontractor.
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 19:40:31 +0000 (UTC), "Frank McVey"
<[email protected]> brought forth from the murky depths:
>Thanks for the input. I think in my case it was the "Enable Regular
>Expressions" which might have been the problem. I certainly don't recollect
>it from my last foray into NFilter.
I had turned on logging and regex. They proved to be the demons
which were unleashed by the sunspot activity. All is now well
and the trolls are back under the stairs/bridges where they
belong.
=====================================================================
-=Everything in Moderation,=- NoteSHADES(tm) glare guards
-=including moderation.=- http://www.diversify.com
=====================================================================
Works fine for me.
Clint
"Owen Davies" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Doug Miller, or anyone: Has anyone used NFilter with XP Pro? It's not
> mentioned on the Web site, but I'd hope that NFilter will work with it if
it
> works with NT.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Owen Davies
>
>
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 23:04:29 GMT, "Owen Davies"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Doug Miller, or anyone: Has anyone used NFilter with XP Pro? It's not
>mentioned on the Web site, but I'd hope that NFilter will work with it if it
>works with NT.
I have one Win XP Pro box in the house and two Win 98SE boxes.
Nfilter works well on all of them but newsproxy.exe does bail out on
occasion (measured in hundreds of hours of uptime) - I have not found
this to be a significant deterrent to using it.
(I am curious as to why it goes belly up once in a while, though)
With a simple crossposting filter in place I see little of the
nonsense that is posted to the group by the trolls.
Author level filtering takes care of the rest, although I often have
to apply new filters in this way on a daily basis.
I maintain a parallel, unfiltered instance of Agent on my laptop and
every so often will look into it to see what I'm missing.
It is a brief look, but makes me glad that I read the group through
filters.
Regards, Tom
Thomas J. Watson-Cabinetmaker
Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania
http://users.snip.net/~tjwatson
The answer is simple:
Turn off your computer and go make something out of wood.
"George M. Kazaka" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I know that there is an abundunce of Computer Geeks and NG Wizards out
there
> in Woodworking Land, Soooo
> Could ya possibly dust the sawdust off for a moment and let me know what
is
> the best filter I can get to keep the slimeballs off of my screen, It has
> got so that i'm not sure if I'm on a woodworking site or a porn site.
>
> Thanks
> George
>
>
"George M. Kazaka" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I know that there is an abundunce of Computer Geeks and NG Wizards out
there
> in Woodworking Land, Soooo
> Could ya possibly dust the sawdust off for a moment and let me know what
is
> the best filter I can get to keep the slimeballs off of my screen
Hell, I get them blocked one way and they come back another way.Must be nice
to be so bored.
Doug,
I'm running XP-Home Edition. If NFilter acts only as a local news proxy it
just might work.
I'm going to try it and let you know if I get the 'Blue Screen o Death' or
not, OK?
Jon
PS: OE ? If this doesn't work, maybe it's time for me to look for a
different news reader.
"Owen Davies" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Doug Miller, or anyone: Has anyone used NFilter with XP Pro? It's not
> mentioned on the Web site, but I'd hope that NFilter will work with it if
it
> works with NT.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Owen Davies
>
>
Owen & Dave,
I'm having 'some' trouble.
WinXP stopped it twice before I selected "Run in compatability mode for:
Windows 95".
NFilter is now saying "OVR:09D0 WARNING: Header 'path' is unobtainable
(can't be filtered) OVR:09D0 +006 WA".
I've had enough for tonight.
Jon
"Owen Davies" wrote in message
> Doug Miller, or anyone: Has anyone used NFilter with XP Pro? It's not
> mentioned on the Web site, but I'd hope that NFilter will work with it if
it
> works with NT.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Owen Davies
Thanks Doug.
Took some time but I think I got this thing figured out. At least to do the
trick.
I modified some of the ones people have posted, and then made a couple of my
own.
Time will tell.
Takes-a-shot,
Jon
"Doug Miller" wrote in message
> That means your news server doesn't provide that header. Remove the
filter(s)
> that are attempting to filter on "path", or ignore the warning (it's
> harmless).
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)
Thanks too all!
Yep, it's behaving as you say!
I had some crappy filter commands (at least for my news server) that
evidently made WinXP close it down. But once they were cleaned up..yeh!
Takes-a-shot
Jon
"Clint Neufeld" wrote in message
> Works fine for me.
> Clint
>
> "Owen Davies" wrote in message
> > Doug Miller, or anyone: Has anyone used NFilter with XP Pro? It's not
> > mentioned on the Web site, but I'd hope that NFilter will work with it
if
> it
> > works with NT.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Owen Davies
> >
> >
>
>
Spoke to soon....
This thing may have been working ok, it sure seemed to earlier. Now it's
choking...
I've had it. Just going to use "Block sender" in OE and call it a day, cause
I got plenty to do rather than fighting with nfilter.
Thanks anyway,
PS I am not leaving the rec cause of some jerks.
Jon Veeneman
"Jon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Thanks too all!
> Yep, it's behaving as you say!
> I had some crappy filter commands (at least for my news server) that
> evidently made WinXP close it down. But once they were cleaned up..yeh!
>
> Takes-a-shot
> Jon