From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 8 07:06:47 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 826C71065677 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 07:06:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from j.mckeown@ru.ac.za) Received: from b.mail.ru.ac.za (b.mail.ru.ac.za [IPv6:2001:4200:1010::25:2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 073A48FC24 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 07:06:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from j.mckeown@ru.ac.za) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=ru-msa; d=ru.ac.za; h=Received:From:Organization:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:References:In-Reply-To:X-Face:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id:X-Virus-Scanned:X-Authenticated-User; b=VVIpB4bN2QlliVbTMXJxTxmLsaBJLHgYXssyOJMKmzXTzizZUoc+iQY6LqUUWYSVzF+gFm9kf9DNKBRdwNtvf0WCEm3NOtsOzQGymVwfquDVXvKY9Wy+Q4WB8l55FBDA; Received: from vorkosigan.ru.ac.za ([2001:4200:1010:1058:219:d1ff:fe9f:a932]:49795) by b.mail.ru.ac.za with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1MDYwP-000Lg0-Qh for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:06:45 +0200 From: Jonathan McKeown Organization: Rhodes University To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:06:45 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <20090530160540.C5BCD106575F@hub.freebsd.org> <20090605220640.GA30463@it.ca> <20090606034315.GA82099@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20090606034315.GA82099@comcast.net> X-Face: $@VrUx^RHy/}yu]jKf/<4T%/d|F+$j-Ol2"2J$q+%OK1]&/G_S9(=?utf-8?q?HkaQ*=60!=3FYOK=3FY!=27M=60C=0A=09aP=5C9nVPF8Q=7DCilHH8l=3B=7E!4?= =?utf-8?q?2HK6=273lg4J=7Daz?=@1Dqqh:J]M^"YPn*2IWrZON$1+G?oX3@ =?utf-8?q?k=230=0A=0954XDRg=3DYn=5FF-etwot4U=24b?=dTS{i X-Virus-Scanned: b.mail.ru.ac.za (2001:4200:1010::25:2) X-Authenticated-User: s0900137 from vorkosigan.ru.ac.za (2001:4200:1010:1058:219:d1ff:fe9f:a932) using auth_plaintext 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: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:06:47 -0000 On Saturday 06 June 2009 05:43:15 Charlie Kester wrote: > 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. Unless you're absolutely certain someone is never going to talk sense, I reckon the backscatter is quite useful, to keep an eye on what the killfiled person is talking about and how people are reacting. Killfiling whole threads automatically because a particular person has joined in is a drastic step. Jonathan