ATTN: APAS newcomers-wannabe: Troll/Flood-free NewsServers (FROG, FRELL), Flood-Free(BANANA)
Frog-Admin
You may have noticed that apas is periodically vandalized by trolls
and flooders.
Most "regulars" here have their own filtering tools
to keep the newsgroup readable for themselves.
"Newcomers" arrive naked to a place where the Usenet equivalent of a
full battlefield gear would be advisable, and both bandwidth and
attention may suffer.
In an effort to make your APAS experience more enjoyable, since '2002
I opened for public use the NewsServer I read through *myself*
whether at home or from some dial-up when travelling abroad
(i.e. with *my* filtering rules,
I feed from 3 upstream NewsServers
this satisfies *me* and 25-50 regular users so far)
FROG
server name: frogadmin.yi.org
port: 119 (standard)
user: (none)
password: (none)
newsgroups: alt.privacy.anon-server
alt.anonymous.messages
alt.test
local.frog.chat
access: read/write
retention: 120 days
This looked like an interesting by-product of the Frog MailToNews
mail...@frogadmin.yi.org
mail2new...@frogadmin.yi.org
(M2news allows to write to 100.000+ NG)
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FILTERING RULES:
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My objective is to
increase the signal/noise ratio
with a workload sustainable for me
signal:
the technical information
(questions, answers, discussions, announces...)
noise:
flame wars
bashing of software or services
known sources of disinformation
floods
trolls
spam
workload:
I do have a life
increase S/N ratio:
I neither expect to
get a 100% "clean" apas
never eliminate a "valuable" post
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I use all filtering techniques I have at hand, to get to my objective.
I don't care publishing the technical details of the rules.
But it is no mystery that
I filter on both
message headers
(Subject, Author, References, Messager-ID, Newsgroups...)
message body
I try to remove all posts in replies to trolls, or quoting trolls
Banned: Bosc. Cham. Sec.Be. Pang. Burn. Catd. Aver. Evi.El. Bl.J.
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PERFORMANCE:
2002/10/15: 51 posts
2002/10/16: 63 posts
2002/10/17: 39 posts
2002/10/18: 30 posts
2002/10/19: 30 posts
2002/10/20: 25 posts
as compared to the hundreds messages on an unfiltered server
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And I got 2 COMPETITORS
(different machine, different operator, different OS/software,
different rules, similar objective)
FRELL
server name: frell.eu.org
port: 119 (standard) or 563 (SSL via STARTTLS and NNTPS)
user: (none)
password: (none)
newsgroups: alt.privacy.anon-server
alt.anonymous.messages
alt.test
access: read
retention: ?? days
BANANA (rather troll-friendly)
server name: news.bananasplit.info
port: 119 (standard) or 563 (NNTPS)
user: (none)
password: (none)
newsgroups: alt.privacy.anon-server
alt.anonymous.messages
alt.testing.testing
alt.security.pgp
sci.crypt
talk.politics.crypto
alt.hacker
alt.privacy
access: read/write
retention: 90 days
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Also Related:
WebToNews:
http://frogadmin.yi.org/cgi-bin/dnewsweb.exe
Frog's Support for News
http://frogadmin.yi.org/News/
Enjoy
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Frog
wrote:
I tried your news server.
The blue idiot and most trolling disappeared.
Apas becomes amazingly different and more pleasant.
Thanks a lot, count myself as an enthusiast 26th user.