I just finished a filter that stops this crud. I just had to type out
every slimeball vulgar word in US English and it's all set.
Now the only evidence of sleazebucketry I see is the replies, even the
funny ones.
C'mon guys!
James
[email protected]
http://[email protected]
The trolls are easy to avoid and cause me no particular irritation. Three
mouse clicks and he's gone along with any thing else he's posted under that
name and he stays gone until he changes the name and then he's gone again
with three more mouse clicks. It's all the useless responses to those
original posts that clog everything up and filtering them takes effort. The
troll posts 5 things and propagates a hundred responses easily by people who
have to let the world know they are incensed by what he said, that they have
traced the troll's address, that they have reported the troll, etc.
Anything to let the troll know that he has successfully gotten under their
skin. And when someone finally leaves the group it's not the troll that was
the breaking point -- it's all hassles of the responses that finally run
them off.
BTW, I'll bet you a beer next time I'm up your way that you haven't got
every "slimeball vulgar word in the US English". He'll find another one
with which to get through and probably within the next week. Sort of like
I've been doing at work. I've been entering various versions of viagra.
That is substituting "@" and "*" for either or both "a"s or a combination of
the two symbols for the "a"s, substituting "1", "l", or "!" for the "i" plus
all the variations with the "@" and "*". Then there is all the various
combinations that can be repeated by simply inserting spaces between the
letters, or periods, or "*", or "!", or "/", or "|". All this just for
viagra. Then there is the various was of offering enlargements to my penis
and the different way that will please the women. That one's even worse
than viagra. Then of course I also need my breasts enhanced, lots of
different medicines, mortgage loans, debts smashed, bankruptcy advise, etc.
"brocpuffs" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> I just finished a filter that stops this crud. I just had to type out
> every slimeball vulgar word in US English and it's all set.
>
> Now the only evidence of sleazebucketry I see is the replies, even the
> funny ones.
>
> C'mon guys!
>
> James
> [email protected]
> http://[email protected]
>
problem is most of them are not on our NG
they are from the CPd sites
--
Young Carpenter
"Violin playing and Woodworking are similar, it takes plenty of money,
plenty of practice, and you usually make way more noise than intended"
"brocpuffs" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> I just finished a filter that stops this crud. I just had to type out
> every slimeball vulgar word in US English and it's all set.
>
> Now the only evidence of sleazebucketry I see is the replies, even the
> funny ones.
>
> C'mon guys!
>
> James
> [email protected]
> http://[email protected]
>
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The offer of the beer would have worked last week since I was up there
although I didn't find time to catch up with Mario which we've talked about.
One of these trips needs to be longer than an extended weekend. Now I'm 700
miles away. Actually at work I caught onto a 100% effective filter. The
spammers are using alphabet programs to spam the ISP address that hosts our
which also hits our domain address. That is, if the ISP is fred.net and the
domain is john.org, spam to [email protected] also hits [email protected]. So the
filter I set up is "not me" -- Mailwasher has a setting that if something
([email protected] for example) doesn't show in the header, it's rejected since
anything using the ISP address is spam and not business related. Problem
is, there is now so much coming through that it still takes several minutes
for the filter to process everything. I had 800 spams Monday morning. And
with a connection loss problem I kept getting interrupted and had to start
the process over several times so had most of the morning tied up getting
rid of the crap. Decided that it's time to get a different email address
that isn't such a gimmee to the spammers even though I can safely. Think
that Mailwasher uses that logic you mentioned and without filters set up by
me it did dump a lot of stuff on it's own but nowhere near enough. I was
still spending ridiculous amounts of time tweaking the filter and not having
a lot of success.
I'm not feeling quite as frustrated with things now since teranews seems to
have resolved the slowness issue for the time being. Everytime I start
thinking they have their act together it falls apart again and I just can't
bring myself to start paying them. The free service ought to be reliable at
least and never has been. So now I'm not waiting 30 seconds to several
minutes for most messages to open. Can't figure why it was just the wreck.
A 1K text message her might take 3 minutes and 300+K binary file on ABPW
takes 12 seconds ( I timed one). Strange
>"brocpuffs" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 00:44:46 GMT, "Scratch Ankle Wood"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >BTW, I'll bet you a beer next time I'm up your way that you haven't got
> >every "slimeball vulgar word in the US English". He'll find another one
> >with which to get through and probably within the next week. Sort of
like
> >I've been doing at work. I've been entering various versions of viagra.
> >That is substituting "@" and "*" for either or both "a"s or a combination
of
>
> <snip>
>
> No need to wait, I'll buy you a beer now.
>
> There are new programs though so far only for filtering email, that
> use something called "Bayesian logic" or similar. The idea is way over
> my head, but these programs actually learn what you like and don't
> like. THey need to be trained over a few days to a week.
>
> I use a free program from http://www.keir.net/k9.html
> and I never see spam in my email any more. Once in a while a good
> email is mislabeled and I need to correct that. Norton has a new email
> filter that works very similarly. Not for usenet yet though, curses.
>
> James
> [email protected]
> http://[email protected]
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 00:44:46 GMT, "Scratch Ankle Wood"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>BTW, I'll bet you a beer next time I'm up your way that you haven't got
>every "slimeball vulgar word in the US English". He'll find another one
>with which to get through and probably within the next week. Sort of like
>I've been doing at work. I've been entering various versions of viagra.
>That is substituting "@" and "*" for either or both "a"s or a combination of
<snip>
No need to wait, I'll buy you a beer now.
There are new programs though so far only for filtering email, that
use something called "Bayesian logic" or similar. The idea is way over
my head, but these programs actually learn what you like and don't
like. THey need to be trained over a few days to a week.
I use a free program from http://www.keir.net/k9.html
and I never see spam in my email any more. Once in a while a good
email is mislabeled and I need to correct that. Norton has a new email
filter that works very similarly. Not for usenet yet though, curses.
James
[email protected]
http://[email protected]