Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: OT: usenet reader software Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 21:57:13 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 50 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1406066233 6899 64.122.56.22 (22 Jul 2014 21:57:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 21:57:13 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:75029 On 2014-07-22, Monte Milanuk wrote: > On 2014-07-22, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2014-07-22, Monte Milanuk wrote: >>> On 2014-07-22, ismeal shanshi wrote: >>> [drugs for sale] >> >>> Aaaannnd here we have a good example of why it would be really nice >>> to be able to filter/score based on the message *body*, not just the >>> headers. 8( >> >> slrn filtered that out just fine based on headers alone, thank you. >> >> So, I didn't see it at all until you quoted the whole thing. >> >> Here's the relevent slrn scoring rule: >> >> Score:: =-9999 >> Message-ID: .*googlegroups.com >> > > True... but what if I don't want to be quite that elitist and black-ball > every one posting via google groups? Some mailing lists I read via > gmane *originate* on google groups (web2py list, for one). There are one or two mailing lists that originate on GG, and I don't apply the rule to those lists. > Other people posting from google groups are not > malicious/trolls/jerks/spammers - True. But if they persist in posting via a well-known span-conduit that's also famous for various other breakages, then I don't see how they can be too surprised that not everybody sees their posts. I occasionally disable that rule, and it's never seemed like I was missing anything valuable. > Maybe slrn needs an upgrade to gracefully handle html formatted messages > - good bad or otherwise, they're pretty much here to stay, kind of like > google groups. There are programs like lynx, elinks, etc. that can > handle simple html via a cli program... so its not entirely beyond the > realm of possibility. Even if they were nicely formatted, I'd still probably plonk GG posts just to avoid the garbage. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! An Italian is COMBING at his hair in suburban DES gmail.com MOINES!