Subject: Any way to filter on Message-ID?
There are a metric crap-ton of bogus posts showing up.. but they all
Running Agent 4.2
Thanks!!
Mike
A. Agent 5.0 and later have filtering on Message-ID.
But not in Agent 4.2 itself, sadly.
<https://www.forteinc.com/release/notes.php?id=50>
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Agent 5.0 Release Notes
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Filter Usenet Message by Message-ID
You can now filter Usenet messages by message-id. This can be a
great spam-fighting feature. Some posters may be clever in how
they mix up the subject and author fields of spam messages, but
often the messages they send have a common factor in each message-id.
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B. There is another option -- use a local proxy to do the filtering.
There is an add-on NFilter which can add filtering to any newsreader,
including filtering on Message-ID.
<http://web.archive.org/web/20080514193524/http://www.nfilter.org/>
The downloaded files can be 1 byte short which can cause modern versions
of Windows to report "not a valid Win32 executable".
(a) For NFilter version 1.20 (np-120.exe), rename np-120.exe to
np-120.zip, extract all the files, and run setup.exe.
(b) For NFilter version 1.21-b1 (NewsProxy.exe), use a hex editor
to append one nul byte to the end of the file NewsProxy.exe
to make it 245,760 bytes long.
[Diagram best viewed in a fixed-pitch font]
( )
+----------+ +---------+ ( Internet ) +----------+
¦ NEWS ¦ ¦ ¦ ( ) ¦ NEWS ¦
¦ READER ¦---->¦ NFilter ¦----------------->¦ SERVER ¦
¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ( ) ¦ ¦
+----------+ +---------+ ( ) +----------+
( )
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Kind regards
Ralph Fox
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