Nigel Noldsworth
Guest
Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:48 pm
Hello there,
I see a lot of spam when using this VHDL group in google groups. Can
you tell me what do you use to send and receive postings without those
spams ?
I saw on random internet websites I should use emacs. I have emacs on
my fedora 12, however can you please tell me how to configure it
please ?
thanks
Nigel
Rich Webb
Guest
Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:48 pm
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:48:56 -0800 (PST), Nigel Noldsworth
<noldsworth_at_googlemail.com> wrote:
Quote:
Hello there,
I see a lot of spam when using this VHDL group in google groups. Can
you tell me what do you use to send and receive postings without those
spams ?
I saw on random internet websites I should use emacs. I have emacs on
my fedora 12, however can you please tell me how to configure it
please ?
I use Agent as the newsreader but the heavy lifting for the filters is
done by Hamster Playground
http://www.elbiah.de/hamster/pg/.
Essentially, to kill most of the spam it's necessary to look at more
than the information that is available in the mandatory headers (From,
Date, Newsgroups, Subject, Message-ID, Path).
Other header fields are useful, such as Injection-Info, X-Trace, and
NNTP-Posting-Host, as is the message body itself, where spammers often
include a link to their website.
But to get to that information, it's necessary to download the complete
contents of every post. If you're only filtering on text groups, that
can be done by installing a local Usenet server like the one that's part
of Hamster Playground. That server connects to your upstream Usenet feed
and you point your newsreader to the local server, usually through the
loopback IP (127.0.0.1).
I've been quite pleased with Hamster Playground, although I can't seem
to convince it to use SSL.
See the Usenet Improvement Project (originally located at
http://improve-usenet.org/ but that site is having problems; use the
mirror at
http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/index.html) for more
options such as nFilter/NewsProxy and the original Hamster Classic.
--
Rich Webb Norfolk, VA
Chris Abele
Guest
Tue Dec 15, 2009 3:22 am
On 12/14/2009 2:43 PM, Rich Webb wrote:
Quote:
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:48:56 -0800 (PST), Nigel Noldsworth
noldsworth_at_googlemail.com> wrote:
Hello there,
I see a lot of spam when using this VHDL group in google groups. Can
you tell me what do you use to send and receive postings without those
spams ?
I saw on random internet websites I should use emacs. I have emacs on
my fedora 12, however can you please tell me how to configure it
please ?
I use Agent as the newsreader but the heavy lifting for the filters is
done by Hamster Playground
http://www.elbiah.de/hamster/pg/.
Essentially, to kill most of the spam it's necessary to look at more
than the information that is available in the mandatory headers (From,
Date, Newsgroups, Subject, Message-ID, Path).
Other header fields are useful, such as Injection-Info, X-Trace, and
NNTP-Posting-Host, as is the message body itself, where spammers often
include a link to their website.
But to get to that information, it's necessary to download the complete
contents of every post. If you're only filtering on text groups, that
can be done by installing a local Usenet server like the one that's part
of Hamster Playground. That server connects to your upstream Usenet feed
and you point your newsreader to the local server, usually through the
loopback IP (127.0.0.1).
I've been quite pleased with Hamster Playground, although I can't seem
to convince it to use SSL.
See the Usenet Improvement Project (originally located at
http://improve-usenet.org/ but that site is having problems; use the
mirror at
http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/index.html) for more
options such as nFilter/NewsProxy and the original Hamster Classic.
Or you can use any newsreader (I use Thunderbird, but even Outlook
Express would work) with a news server that does a better job of
filtering. Both News.Individual (low cost) and News.Eternal-September
(free) are nearly spam free.
Chris
Chris Abele
Guest
Tue Dec 15, 2009 3:22 am
On 12/14/2009 2:43 PM, Rich Webb wrote:
Quote:
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:48:56 -0800 (PST), Nigel Noldsworth
noldsworth_at_googlemail.com> wrote:
Hello there,
I see a lot of spam when using this VHDL group in google groups. Can
you tell me what do you use to send and receive postings without those
spams ?
I saw on random internet websites I should use emacs. I have emacs on
my fedora 12, however can you please tell me how to configure it
please ?
I use Agent as the newsreader but the heavy lifting for the filters is
done by Hamster Playground
http://www.elbiah.de/hamster/pg/.
Essentially, to kill most of the spam it's necessary to look at more
than the information that is available in the mandatory headers (From,
Date, Newsgroups, Subject, Message-ID, Path).
Other header fields are useful, such as Injection-Info, X-Trace, and
NNTP-Posting-Host, as is the message body itself, where spammers often
include a link to their website.
But to get to that information, it's necessary to download the complete
contents of every post. If you're only filtering on text groups, that
can be done by installing a local Usenet server like the one that's part
of Hamster Playground. That server connects to your upstream Usenet feed
and you point your newsreader to the local server, usually through the
loopback IP (127.0.0.1).
I've been quite pleased with Hamster Playground, although I can't seem
to convince it to use SSL.
See the Usenet Improvement Project (originally located at
http://improve-usenet.org/ but that site is having problems; use the
mirror at
http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/index.html) for more
options such as nFilter/NewsProxy and the original Hamster Classic.
Or you can use any newsreader (I use Thunderbird, but even Outlook
Express would work) with a news server that does a better job of
filtering. Both News.Individual (low cost) and News.Eternal-September
(free) are nearly spam free.
Chris
Petter Gustad
Guest
Tue Dec 15, 2009 2:02 pm
Nigel Noldsworth <noldsworth_at_googlemail.com> writes:
Quote:
I saw on random internet websites I should use emacs. I have emacs on
my fedora 12, however can you please tell me how to configure it
please ?
I use Emacs/Gnus with news.eternal-september.org.
Basically I have the following in my .emacs:
(setq gnus-nntp-server "news.eternal-september.org")
(setq nntp-authinfo-function 'nntp-send-authinfo)
Then a ~/.authinfo containing:
machine news.eternal-september.org login myuser password mypass force yes
Where myuser and mypass are the username and password I got when I
registered at news.eternal-september.org.
There's a lot more options in Gnus, but I believe the above is the
minimal. You might want to set your e-mail address as well:
(setq user-mail-address "Petter Gustad <newsmailno1_at_gustad.com>")
Emacs/Gnus is great, and has a lot of other possibilities, but if you
are familiar with a different news-reader you should be able to
configure it to use news.eternal-september.org as well.
Petter
--
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
Rich Webb
Guest
Tue Dec 15, 2009 3:17 pm
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:22:39 -0500, Chris Abele <ccabele_at_yahoo.com>
wrote:
Quote:
Or you can use any newsreader (I use Thunderbird, but even Outlook
Express would work) with a news server that does a better job of
filtering. Both News.Individual (low cost) and News.Eternal-September
(free) are nearly spam free.
Fair point. Along with simple user inertia (guilty) there are trade-offs
for completeness and retention times as well as spamosity (spamness?)
and personal preference.
I tend to prefer an unfiltered feed where *I* decide what to suppress
but it is a bit more work up front.
Even taking on a spam-free feed, I'd still want to run the local server
in order to drop a few sock-puppets like "Archimedes' Lever" and his
dozens of pseudonyms.
--
Rich Webb Norfolk, VA
