Re: yEnc-encoded articles in newsgroups

On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 22:41:32 +0100, llp wrote:

Julien ÉLIE a présenté l'énoncé suivant :

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

 
I don't have these articles on my server.

Same here. After looking deeper, these seem mostly in groups that my
servers do not carry, and if they are carried, the articles are filtered by
cleanfeed (before spamassassin in my setup).

Seeing that Ray seems to carry these groups, and looks like he's doing a
great job identifying the articles, I'm going to delay diving into this
issue. Maybe take some time to work with Perl without tearing my hair out
first :)