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David F. Eisan
 
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Dear All,

** A note on Trolls **

People, when will you learn, *PLEASE* do not reply to the trolls, leave them
under their pitiful bridge to starve. And they will starve, and go away if
you stop feeding them with your replies.

** How to use Nfilter(AKA NewsProxy) to filter out Trolls and other useless
crap **

Nfilter is used successfully by wreck members using the following O.S.'s -
Win98se, XP Home, XP Pro, Win2K, and Win2K Advanced Server.

1. Download & install NewsProxy from http://www.nfilter.org/
Basic instructions are at http://www.nfilter.org/faq.html#2.2

*** The Nfilter web site is gone! ***

Robert Bonomi has been kind enough to host the program for us wreckers,
click the link to get a copy of Nfilter and some other useful info,

http://www.r-bonomi.com/rec.woodworking/index.html

Thank you Robert.

*** ***

2. Copy the "NewsProxy" shortcut from - C:\Program Files\NewsProxy\
To - C:\WINDOWS\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp\
[this is for Win98se, modify this to suit your OS.]

3. If you are using Outlook Express. Start OE. Right click on your news
folder
(not rec.ww - you want the main news folder) and select Properties.
Select the Server tab. Copy the information from the Server Name box.
Enter "localhost" (without the quote marks) in the Server Name box.
Some O.S.'s may require you use 127.0.0.1 in the Server Name box.
Select the Advanced tab and make sure that News(NNTP): is set to 119.
Click OK.

4. In NewsProxy. Select Edit | Configuration | Network tab. In the "Server
Name
or IP Number" box - paste the information from Server Name you copied in
step 3.
Nfilter *IS* case sensitive for the criteria in nfilter.dat. By enabling
Regular Expressions
you can avoid having to enter all permutations of upper & lower cases into
the
nfilter.dat file.
Select the General tab and check "Enable Regular Expressions". Click OK.
Select Edit | Filters. Click File | Save As
Change FileName to nfilter.dat.old Click Save.
Delete all the existing lines. Copy the following section,
from "Start Nfilter..." to "End", to the file & be sure not
to leave any blank lines in the file.
Click File | Save As
FileName = nfilter.dat Click Save.

# Start Nfilter.dat list
# Any line that starts with a # is a comment line and will be ignored.
# Blank lines are a no no.
# This list requires that "Enable Regular Expressions" be turned on.
# In NewsProxy Click Edit | Configuration and check the
# Regular Expressions box.
#
#Drop 3 or more xposts
rec.woodworking Drop xref:[^:]*:[^:]*:[^:]*:.*
rec.woodworking Drop xref:.*rec\.pets.*
rec.woodworking Drop from:.*[Pp][Uu][Pp]+[Yy].*
rec.woodworking Drop from:.*[Jj][Dd].*
rec.woodworking Drop subject:.*[Jj][Ee][Ww][Ss].*
rec.woodworking Drop subject:.*[Jj][Ee][Ww][Ii][Ss][Hh].*
rec.woodworking Drop subject:.*[Cc][Hh][Rr][Ii][Ss][Tt][Ii][Aa][Nn].*
rec.woodworking Drop subject:.*[Mm][Uu][Ss][Ll][Ii][Mm].*
rec.woodworking Drop subject:.*[Jj][Ee][Ss][Uu][Ss].*
rec.woodworking Drop subject:.*[Pp][Ee][Nn][Ii][Ss].*
rec.woodworking Drop subject:.*[Ff][Uu][Cc][Kk].*
rec.woodworking Drop subject:.* [Cc][Uu][Mm] .*
rec.woodworking Drop subject:.*[Cc][Oo][Cc][Kk].*
rec.woodworking Drop subject:.*[Pp][Uu][Ss]+[Yy].*
rec.woodworking Drop subject:.*[Ss][Hh][Ii][Tt].*
rec.woodworking Drop subject:.*JOAT IS GAY.*
rec.woodworking Drop subject:.*[Nn][Ee][Gg][Rr][Oo].*
rec.woodworking drop
rec.woodworking drop
rec.woodworking drop from:*remailer*
# End NFilter.dat list

Any time you edit the nfilter.dat file be sure you Save it, then close
NewsProxy

and restart it. This will cause it to read the new nfilter.dat file. Note:
there is
no need to close your newsreader (ie Outlook Express) when doing this.

Here's a quick primer on Regular Expressions.
Using the example expression .*[Pp][Uu][Pp]+[Yy].*
[Pp] will match one letter of either upper or lower case P.
[Pp]+ will match any number of letters of either upper or lower case P.
So the above will match: Puppy, Pupy, PuPpY, pUPPPPPPPy, etc.
A dot (".") will match any single character. And ".*" will match any number
of any characters.
Spaces are not ignored and are a valid matching character.
[Pp][Uu] [Pp]+[Yy] (note the space between the U&P) will not match "Puppy"
but will match "Pu ppy".

For more information on Regular Expressions go to:
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/helpsheets/regex.html or
http://sitescooper.org/tao_regexps.html

Using the above as a guide it is simple to add a new rule, but you may want
to test it first by using Flag instead of Drop. For example, to test for
"asshole"
anywhere in the subject line use:
rec.woodworking Flag:ASSHOLE= subject:.*[Aa][Ss]+[Hh][Oo][Ll][Ee].*
Once it works to your satisfaction replace "Flag:ASSHOLE=" with "Drop".

Please use one of the test groups (ie alt.test) for testing Subjects. You
just need to change rec.woodworking to alt.test and have at it.
Alternatively
you could unsubscribe from rec.woodworking and then resubscribe. This will
give
you the actual posts from the current crop of idiots to test the From,
nntp-posting-host, or message-id functions.

CAUTION: With Regular Expressions enabled, the rule in the original
nfilter.dat file = rec.woodworking drop xref:*:*:*:* will cause ALL posts
to be dropped.

ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES from wreck users:

#Drop 2 or more xposts
rec.woodworking Drop xref:[^:]*:[^:]*:.*

#Drop any post from known troll posting hosts (as of Oct-2003)
rec.woodworking Drop nntp-posting-host:.*65\.149\.76
rec.woodworking Drop nntp-posting-host:.*63\.159\.116
rec.woodworking Drop nntp-posting-host:.*206\.216\.55
rec.woodworking Drop nntp-posting-host:.*206\.216\.[456]
rec.woodworking Drop nntp-posting-host:.*205\.184\.1[23456789]

#Drop the current trolls (as of Oct-2003)
rec.woodworking drop
rec.woodworking drop
rec.woodworking drop
rec.woodworking drop
rec.woodworking drop
rec.woodworking drop

rec.woodworking drop path:.*{{servername}}

**** Filtering with Extreme Prejudice ****
Things have got out of hand on the wreck with a few morons posting through
Google. As such, I have decided to remove all posts from Google.com. This is
an extreme measure and decide for yourself if you want to add the following
line to your Nfilter.dat rules.
rec.woodworking drop

You should be able to see from those examples how to add additional rules to
drop messages with certain words in the subject or from specific users. If
you have any questions, please reply to this message.

5. If you are running a firewall like ZoneAlarm you will need to enable
NewsProxy to function as a server.

6. If your ISP requires you to login, Nfilter requires no special set up. It
will
pass the login information from your newsreader to your ISP/News Server.


7. For using Nfilter with multiple servers. See
http://www.geocities.com/d4vidb/x_setup11.html


*** A special thankyou to Art, AKA the Wood Butcher for his help installing
Nfilter, It works, go get it and install it now. ***



**** USING OUTLOOK EXPRESS TO FILTER THE CRAP ****

To Block a Sender:
-Click on a message from the offender.
-Click on "Message"
-Click on "Block Sender"
-Click on "Yes" to remove all messages from the offender.


To Block a Thread
-Double Click on the message
-Copy the subject line (without the prefix)
-Close the message
-Click on Tools | Message Rules | News | New
-In box #1 Check "Subject line contains specific words"
-In box #2 Check "Delete it"
-In box #3 Click on "contains specific words"
-Paste the subject line into the box
-Click Add | OK | OK


To Block On Something Else
-See Block Thread above and explore other options
in box #1.

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Thanks,

David.

Every neighbourhood has one, in mine, I'm him.

Remove the "splinter" from my email address to email me.

Newbies, please read this newsgroups FAQ.

rec.ww FAQ http://www.robson.org/woodfaq/
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Crowbar FAQ http://www.klownhammer.org/crowbar


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Question: if I filter the crap, will there be anything left?

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Bridger
 
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On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 00:16:00 GMT, "Pounds on Wood"
wrote:

Question: if I filter the crap, will there be anything left?





if there is, please repost it....
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Alan Bierbaum
 
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Not much , lately.

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 00:16:00 GMT, "Pounds on Wood"
wrote:

Question: if I filter the crap, will there be anything left?


Alan Bierbaum

web site: http://www.calanb.com
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Wood Butcher
 
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Just BAD's ****ing contests.

"Pounds on Wood" wrote in message
s.com...
Question: if I filter the crap, will there be anything left?

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The Guy
 
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Pounds on Wood wrote:
Question: if I filter the crap, will there be anything left?

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http://www.billpounds.com



My twit filters are currently zapping between 25 and 35% of what hits
here. On a good / bad day it hits 40%. So, yeah there will still be
some content worth reading left over.

Tim
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