comp.lang.python killfile rule

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
> John Black <jblack at nopam.com>:
>
>> All, in case this is useful to anyone, this rule that tells my newsreader
>> which posts to kill really cleans up the group.  I could not find a way
>> to key off of anything in the header except keywords because the From
>> keeps changing and I didn't want to overkill real posts.  I may have to
>> add a thing or two to this over time, but right now, this seems to be
>> nailing everything.
>
> I'm still wondering if those flurries of Italian calumnies are actually
> steganographic instructions to intelligence agents of some country.

It's a super-sneaky code. You take all of the posts sent to c.l.p and
determine whether they are spam or ham; a spam post represents a 0
bit, and a ham post is a 1 bit. The flurries of spam are carefully
timed to interleave with actual user posts in order to transmit
information.

ChrisA