Re: Normalcy returns.

now if we could just filter on the posting host. . .

--=20 SwampBug

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Same posting-host, too, which resolves to an address in the = optonline.net=20 domain.

-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?

Nfilter *does* filter on posting host.

Not every ISP provides that header, though...

-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?

You can. Use Hamster as a news proxy and you can filter on any header.

And we thank you very much for the update.

Dave in Fairfax

You notice the flood came on April Fool's Eve......

When I first read the subject line of this thread I thought "Norm has ditched to TimeSaver!" Sigh.

I will look into that. thanks.

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You can. Use Hamster as a news proxy and you can filter on any header.

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--John to email, dial "usenet" and validate (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

I will revisit Nfilter, i used some time back but did not get really = into it. thanks.

--=20 SwampBug

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Nfilter *does* filter on posting host.

Not every ISP provides that header, though...

-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?

For the record, news.individual.net seems to have mass-blocked the whole batch of 'em. A good ten euros spent for the year, already worth it.

Ummmm.... isn't Hamster a news *client*?

Perhaps you meant "use Hamster *with* NewsProxy" ?

-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?

This particular time the posting host was also showing up in the x-trace, which all of the offending posts had while some did not have nntp-posting-host.

Supernews did too. I had no idea what people were talking about until I went and checked Google.

can't design for all contingencies. . .I suppose.

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This particular time the posting host was also showing up in the = x-trace, which all of the offending posts had while some did not have nntp-posting-host.

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--John to email, dial "usenet" and validate (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

Can anyone do anything about it?

I pray Forte Agent's Newsreader will be able to filter posting hosts in version

A good place to start would be an email to snipped-for-privacy@optonline.net, since that was the domain that the garbage was posted through.

-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?

Yeah, well, they're about as responsive as a, well, a very non-responsive thing.

So I've discovered. :-(

I had hoped for better, but alas, they're even less responsive than Google. At least Google sends an automated acknowledgement (even if that's *all* they do).

-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?

However, if optonline allows such floods to continue in the future with any degree of frequency, it would probably be grounds for a UDP, even though they are quite rare; however, the abuse in this case is so clear in this case it pretty much indisputable.

But at the end of the day it is probably more productive to ignore them then escalate things. In the big scope of things they are fly's on the wall and not worth the effort (not really worth the effort of the messge come to think of it).

PK