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>>>On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:16:11 -0800 Robert Baer
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>>>> How in the #$)#$))%^@)#$#(!*&@#!$) can these XXX rated and fake junk
>>>>sales postings be *PERMANTLY* be blocked before they get posted?
>>>
>>>Nuke Googlegroups.
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>>I have, except for a couple of known posters that I white-list.
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>>Agent won't filter on Message-ID but by using Hamster as an
>>intermediary, all of the google-originated junk gets thrown away
>>before it even gets my Agent client.
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>>I've seen, somewhere (el Reg?), that the captcha used to block bots
>>from signing up for google accounts has been broken with a high enough
>>success rate that it's now 'worthwhile' for the spammers to grab
>>throw-away accounts.
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>So you use hamster to do the filtering that Agent cannot?
>I am getting interested but i am *nix centric.
Yes, Agent has pretty good filtering options, including regular expressions, but it will only filter on the From and Subject header lines. Using Hamster or another "local newsserver" like NFilter, exposes the other header lines so Path and Message-ID can be used by Hamster to score the message.