From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 12 2000 - 21:43:40 CDT
Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
> 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).
Sure, if that would work I can do that. I just want *something* that
ideally doesn't require complicated MIME parsing that I can use.
(Although having to trim out the serial parameter and a date parameter is
already too complicated, IMO.)
> 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.
Works great for those servers for which newsfeed.stanford.edu is the sole
feed. Like, say, our reading server. :) And the not-insigificant number
of sites for which I'm their only or primary peer.
I could run the filters on our reading server, but I don't want to
propagate the spam just on general principles, plus a lot of my peers
greatly appreciate it.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>