comp.lang.python killfile rule

John Black

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Jun 22, 2017, 5:08:51 PM6/22/17

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All, in case this is useful to anyone, this rule that tells my newsreader
which posts to kill really cleans up the group. I could not find a way
to key off of anything in the header except keywords because the From
keeps changing and I didn't want to overkill real posts. I may have to
add a thing or two to this over time, but right now, this seems to be
nailing everything.

John Black

Subject contains "PEDOFILO"
Or
Subject contains "MAI"
Or
Subject contains "SEGRETO"
Or
Subject contains "SETTA"
Or
Subject contains "BAMBINI"
Or
Subject contains "FIGLIO"
Or
Subject contains "PAOLO"
Or
Subject contains "NATALE"
Or
Subject contains "SONO"
Or
Subject contains "GRAZIA"
Or
Subject contains "PORNOSTAR"
Or
Subject contains "PEZZO"
Or
Subject contains "MERDA"
Or
Subject contains "CAZZO"
Or
Subject contains "GALERA"
Or
Subject contains "SICARIO"
Or
Subject contains "ESSERE"
Or
Subject contains "CRIMINALE"
Or
Subject contains "LECCA"
Or
Subject contains "COCAINA"
Or
Subject contains "LESBICA"
Or
Subject contains "NESSUNO"
Or
Subject contains "MAFIOSO"
Or
Subject contains "BERLUSCONI"
Or
Subject contains "????"
Or
Subject contains "HARDCORE"
Or
Subject contains "PEDERASTA"
Or
Subject contains "CULO"
Or
Subject contains "NOSTRA"
Or
Subject contains "FOGLIO"
Or
Subject contains "USARE"
Or
Subject contains "FAMIGLIA"
Or
Subject contains "FECE"
Or
Subject contains "CAPO"
Or
Subject contains "SUICIDARE"
Or
Subject contains "OGNI"
Or
Subject contains "CANE"
Or
Subject contains "MERCATO"
Or
Subject contains "VOLTA"
Or
Subject contains "MAFIOSA"
Or
Subject contains "ALMENO"
Or
Subject contains "BASTARDO"
Or
Subject contains "FIGLIA"
Or
Subject contains "BASTARD"
Or
Subject contains "CRIMINAL"
Or
Subject contains "ANNI"
Or
Subject contains "PEDINA"

Marko Rauhamaa

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Jun 22, 2017, 5:21:32 PM6/22/17

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John Black <jbl...@nopam.com>:

> All, in case this is useful to anyone, this rule that tells my newsreader
> which posts to kill really cleans up the group. I could not find a way
> to key off of anything in the header except keywords because the From
> keeps changing and I didn't want to overkill real posts. I may have to
> add a thing or two to this over time, but right now, this seems to be
> nailing everything.

I'm still wondering if those flurries of Italian calumnies are actually
steganographic instructions to intelligence agents of some country.

Marko

Chris Angelico

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Jun 22, 2017, 5:57:02 PM6/22/17

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It's a super-sneaky code. You take all of the posts sent to c.l.p and
determine whether they are spam or ham; a spam post represents a 0
bit, and a ham post is a 1 bit. The flurries of spam are carefully
timed to interleave with actual user posts in order to transmit
information.

ChrisA

jlad...@itu.edu

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Jun 22, 2017, 8:02:08 PM6/22/17

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On Thursday, June 22, 2017 at 2:57:02 PM UTC-7, Chris Angelico wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <m...@p...o.net> wrote:
> > I'm still wondering if those flurries of Italian calumnies are actually
> > steganographic instructions to intelligence agents of some country.
>
> It's a super-sneaky code. You take all of the posts sent to c.l.p and
> determine whether they are spam or ham; a spam post represents a 0
> bit, and a ham post is a 1 bit. The flurries of spam are carefully
> timed to interleave with actual user posts in order to transmit
> information.

I've wanted to read "Mother Night" by Kurt Vonnegut for quite come time.

Gregory Ewing

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Jun 23, 2017, 1:53:27 AM6/23/17

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Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> I'm still wondering if those flurries of Italian calumnies are actually
> steganographic instructions to intelligence agents of some country.

Or a C&C system for someone's botnet?

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Greg

Mirage Web Studio

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Jun 25, 2017, 2:29:28 PM6/25/17

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Just felt like posting, wouldn't it be pythonic if it was
if word in [list]:
ignore

Save time and easily maintainable

Cmg

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Anssi Saari

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Jun 26, 2017, 9:07:37 AM6/26/17

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John Black <jbl...@nopam.com> writes:

> All, in case this is useful to anyone, this rule that tells my newsreader
> which posts to kill really cleans up the group.

I get by just with a very old rule that lowers the score of articles
where the subject is in all caps. Those articles end up in the bottom of
the article list with the other crap and are easily ignored.

John Black

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Jun 26, 2017, 2:32:54 PM6/26/17

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In article <mailman.264.14984153...@python.org>,
miragewe...@gmail.com says...

> Just felt like posting, wouldn't it be pythonic if it was
> if word in [list]:
> ignore
>
> Save time and easily maintainable

Yes for readers that can interpret Python. Mine doesn't. This is the
rule per the syntax of my reader but as you say that is easily translated
to any other format.

John Black