Is there a way to filter....

[Young Carpenter]

Is there a way to filter Crossposting using (ahem) OE I don't Necessarily want to block those NG directly. Oh yeah how about Wild Cards I seem to be doing something wrong It would help If I could Wildcard Block via some of the E-mail Address (I mean @Cumsuck is pretty obvious)

[Clint Neufeld]

As David has posted repeatedly, set up nfilter. It can filter for any number of crosspostings. For example:

• drop xref:*:*:*:*This filter will drop any posts with three or more newsgroups in the XRef line.

It works with OE.

Clint

[Bill Thomas]

[Doug Winterburn]

Yes for new accounts. SAProxy/spamassassin will work for email accounts.

-Doug

[Clint Neufeld]

It SAYS it works with Netscape and Agent. Doesn't say anything about other news apps, except to say it won't work with AOL.

I would suspect (based on what I know of how it works, which may well be flawed) that it will work fine with any news application that does a standard NNTP download. It acts as a proxy news server between your app and your ISP's news server. Basically, you configure nfilter to look to your news server, and your news app to point to "localhost" (net-geek for "my machine"). Simple as that! Then stick in the nfilters that David has been sending out, and you're good to go.

Clint

Necessarily

[Bill Thomas]

[Doug Winterburn]

nfilter is a proxy server. Your news client should be configured to talk to nfilter rather than your nntp server. The host name for nfilter on your machine is localhost or 127.0.0.1. nfilter should then be configured to talk directly to your real nntp server.

If you currently have Mozilla configured to talk directly to your news server, there should be no problems in using nfilter if you follow the configuration instructions on the nfilter site.

-Doug

[Bill Thomas]

Thanks Doug. Your reply inspired me to do the following configuration of Mozilla, which got it working:

Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Proxies and then add 127.0.0.1 to the "No Proxy for:" box.

[Young Carpenter]

Thanks guys My filtering on OE has gotten so bad it has started filtering me! So this whole converstaion was moot until I found it. Any way I have installed Nfilter I hope it works

[Swingman]

FWIW, it works very well with OE ... just downloaded 170 messages, and not a single crossposted message in the bunch.

Thanks to David Leader and his tweaked to the max filter!