Preventing crap email from google?

HoneyMonster nobody at someplace.invalid
Mon Oct 22 10:35:58 EDT 2012


On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:21:36 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:

> On 2012-10-22, Walter Hurry <walterhurry at lavabit.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:51:35 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
>>
>>> Walter Hurry <walterhurry at lavabit.com> writes:
>>> 
>>>> It is Google bloody Groups which is the problem. I should have
>>>> plonked posts from there ages ago, and am about to remedy that
>>>> omission.
>>> 
>>> What narrowly-defined, precise filter rule should be used for this
>>> purpose?
>>
>> Depends on how you read the list, I think. In my case, via Usenet
>> (comp.lang.python) with Pan, so I shall filter on "googlegroups.com" in
>> the Message-ID.
> 
> Same here.  Here's the rule I have in slrn's .score file:
> 
> Score:: =-9999
>  Message-ID: .*googlegroups.com

Actually I don't think the asterisk is necessay*. OTOH, I noticed that 
some are "To: comp.lang.python at googlegroups.com", so I put in a second 
rule:

Score:: =-9999
Message-ID: googlegroups\.com

Score:: =-9999
To: googlegroups\.com

* Or maybe the sytax differs slightly between slrn and Pan.



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