From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Sep 12 2000 - 06:59:23 CDT
In <ylvgw21w60.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>I'd really just like to have *one* field that contains a string I can
>filter on, without having to have any idea what the contents of that
>string is.
Actually, filtering on the whole header (perhaps excluding the "serial"
parameter) might do the job for the kind of filter you envisage (though it
would not be the best for more specifically targetted filters).
>> OK, are we talling about filtering at a relaying agent or at a serving
>> agent?
>Relaying agent. I've been using this filter on newsfeed.stanford.edu for
>quite some time, and a similar scheme is built into Cleanfeed.
Yes, but does that really do any good? Surely the offending articles will
just route around your site. Propagation might be slowed a little bit, but
it will not be stopped.
>Bingo.
>An inferior version of this functionality is even built into Diablo (and
>perhaps they've fixed it by now; I don't know).
>I don't have time to babysit the filters; they pretty much have to be 99%
>automatic. I occasionally add exceptions (localhost.webtv.net, for
>example), but by and large it just runs by itself and works quite nicely.
OK, I will see if I can word it so it is clear which parameters should
always be the same for a series of posts injected close together.
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