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26-07-2005, 04:36 PM

On 2005-07-26, wrote:
Ceri Davies wrote:

Somebody claimed to have filtered the whole lot. I only got one big
burst of troll messages.

This basically got them all, but I doubt that there are many slrn users
he

[uk.rec.gardening]
Sco =-9999 % Spamming ****
Expires: 12/31/2008
% Kill anything with one of these in
{::
NNTP-Posting-Host: 221.124.129.*
NNTP-Posting-Host: 222.106.21.*
X-Complaints-To:
Path: .*kornet.net.*
}

But was it worth the effort of doing even that, the IP addresses will
be different next time around (probably) so that's only a one off
filter.

Not really; it kills "anything with one of th[o]se in", as per the
comment.

With slrn (as with tin that I use) it's a matter of only a
few seconds to skip past all the junk and then mark it as read.

Assuming that the junk comes in blocks.

Either way, I have no desire to argue over whether this or that is a
good solution. I was simply pointing out that it was trivially possible
to get rid of all the crap posts having looked at two of them.

Ceri
--
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not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.)