From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 6 03:43:18 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4149F106564A for ; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 03:43:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corky1951@comcast.net) Received: from QMTA09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.96]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 263968FC13 for ; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 03:43:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corky1951@comcast.net) Received: from OMTA07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.59]) by QMTA09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 0Kdr1c0041GXsucA9TjJkG; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:43:18 +0000 Received: from comcast.net ([98.203.142.76]) by OMTA07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 0TjG1c00S1f6R9u8TTjHiR; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:43:18 +0000 Received: by comcast.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:43:15 -0700 Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 20:43:15 -0700 From: Charlie Kester To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090606034315.GA82099@comcast.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20090530160540.C5BCD106575F@hub.freebsd.org> <20090531142921.B65025@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20090605220640.GA30463@it.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090605220640.GA30463@it.ca> X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.x X-Composer: VIM 7.2 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Subject: Re: What's wrong with this picture? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:43:18 -0000 On Fri 05 Jun 2009 at 15:06:40 PDT Paul Chvostek wrote: > >If you elect to filter this person's traffic, and are concerned that >you'll continue to be inundated with replies, I'd like to suggest a >small procmail script I wrote years ago. > > http://www.it.ca/~paul/s/procmail-filter-msgid > >It caches the message-id of the troll's posts and filters the message >(redirect or bitbucket). It then caches the message-id of any message >that includes a cached message-id in its headers (i.e. In-Reply-To, >Refererences) and filters that too. The effect is to hide not just the >troll's mail, but all the conversations he starts. > >I haven't actively used this thing since 2003, but procmail hasn't >changed much in that time either. Hope it helps. Thanks, I'll give it a try. One thought however. If I'd already filtered this thread, I would have missed helpful tips like yours. I guess that's the price that has to be paid.