Re: yEnc-encoded articles in newsgroups

Julien ÉLIE wrote:

Hi all,

I've noticed yEnc-encoded articles in some newsgroups of the Big-Eight (have a look at soc.culture.french for instance).  Examples:
   <17ba4ef578674e9c$60891$141478$64d91c8e@news.vipernews.com>
   <1O6IN.329500$7uxe.279980@fx09.ams1>

Wouldn't it be worthwhile having NoCeM notices of type "binary" or like to help cleaning non-binary newsgroups from these unwanted articles?
Naturally, other kinds of "binary" stuff could also be in these notices, and not only yEnc.

Just asking, in case a current NoCeM issuer would be interested in adding such filters.  (I'm not going to send NoCeM notices.)

That looks pretty easy to filter out, but I'm not seeing these on my servers due to another "feature" of the articles. I'm happy to add filtering for yenc as I don't serve binary groups on my servers, so this would only check text newsgroups.
I'll get on that in a few days, but I'll check here first in case someone has reasons that I should not do so.
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Retro Guy