I've heard of nfilter but I can't use that WITH Netscape can I? I'm
clueless about other newsreaders.
dave
Robert Bonomi wrote:
In article ,
Bay Area Dave wrote:
You can ALWAYS verify it's me, if you switch headers to "full" and look at:
THE FOLLOWING FOUR LINES ARE FROM MY HEADER:
Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0...
x-complaints-to:
X-Trace: newssvr27.news.prodigy.com blah blah blah
The impostor can't possibly match those details.
Posting through the mail-to-news gateway he currently uses, it's nearly
impossible. Via other methods, is a different matter -- check the full
headers of *this* message. grin
the imposter is *really* easy to spot. look at the "Path: " header.
If it contains "sewer-output" (No, I'm -not- kidding!) towards the right
side of the path, then it was posted through the anonymous mail-to-news
gateway at dizum.com in Holland. If you can filter on the Path: header,
this is a 100% reliable method of dropping anything from that anonymous
gateway. *STRONGLY* recommended.
nFilter syntax:
rec.woodworking Drop path:.*sewer-out
This may be ineffective for some nFilter users, depending on the
configuration of the actual ISP newsserver. (The official documentation
and at least some reports 'from the field' are in disagreement as to
whether that filter always does something. There are reports that if
a header is not in the ISP 'overview' file, then filters referencing that
header are silently ignored.)