Re: yEnc-encoded articles in newsgroups

Ray Banana wrote:

Thus spake Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.org>

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).

That is also the case here. I just added a check for binary articles to
filter_first (before all tests) to add the articles to the NoCem queue
and then continue with the normal cleanfeed processing. I have, however,
added a filter to eliminate the most obvious bogus group names like "a.b.something".

That's a good idea, I may do so. I'm doing some testing on a test inn(stall) so I can feel free to break it if necessary :)

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 :)

;-)

I'm not a fan of DO, IF. I much prefer IF, THEN. Maybe it's just the author of cleanfeed that prefers that order of doing things. I'm the one not very well schooled in Perl so I don't really have any room to talk.

PS: You seem to have an apprentice spam boy on i2pn2: <uu8uit$3h91i$1@i2pn2.org>

He needs to try harder, lol, I'll keep an eye on it. I find a few since 22 Feb and have sent some nocem for them, but not too bad so far.
I have things set up so it's easy for me to review the first few posts of any new user without having to wade through all the regular user's posts. I do this at least once per day.
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Retro Guy