Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 20:43:15 -0700 From: Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's wrong with this picture? Message-ID: <20090606034315.GA82099@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20090605220640.GA30463@it.ca> References: <20090530160540.C5BCD106575F@hub.freebsd.org> <20090531142921.B65025@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20090605220640.GA30463@it.ca>
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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.
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