[REQ] Add-on for OE

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Henry The Mole

I am looking for an add-on or something else to filter messages on a
newsgroup by IP and not by e-mail address (a troll is infesting one of my
subscribed ng, and changes e-mail address every time).

Some suggestions?

Thanks in advance.
Kindly regards.
 
Henry said:
I am looking for an add-on or something else to filter messages on a
newsgroup by IP and not by e-mail address (a troll is infesting one
of my subscribed ng, and changes e-mail address every time).
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Some suggestions?
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It depends on what newsreader you use, but most readers I have used
have the feature that you can set up filters, based on the content of
subject line, author, headers, msg body, etc..

If the IP-number is shown in the headers you simply set up a filter for
these messages.

Something like this:
Search in headers, for 0.0.0.0, action: do not retreive, or mark read,
or hide.
 
Hello, Roger!
You wrote on 06 Apr 2005 14:30:23 GMT:
It depends on what newsreader you use, but most readers I have used
have the feature that you can set up filters, based on the content of
subject line, author, headers, msg body, etc..
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I use Outlook Express.
You can set up filters for some part of the messages, but I can't find a way
to filter someone by IP.
Thanks anyway.

Any other suggestions?
 
It depends on what newsreader you use, but most readers I have used
have the feature that you can set up filters, based on the content of
subject line, author, headers, msg body, etc..

If the IP-number is shown in the headers you simply set up a filter for
these messages.

Something like this:
Search in headers, for 0.0.0.0, action: do not retreive, or mark read,
or hide.
Click to expand...
OE = Outlook Express
 
Hello, Roger!
You wrote on 06 Apr 2005 14:30:23 GMT:


I use Outlook Express.
You can set up filters for some part of the messages, but I can't find a way
to filter someone by IP.
Thanks anyway.

Any other suggestions?
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Think about changing your newsreader! There are others better than OE,
so as well as solving your particular problem you end up with a better
newsreading experience. Try xnews
 
Hello, Livewire!
You wrote on Wed, 6 Apr 2005 15:56:30 +0100:
Think about changing your newsreader! There are others better than OE,
so as well as solving your particular problem you end up with a better
newsreading experience. Try xnews
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Mmmh... I dont' think this could be best solution.
I am very happy with OE + FidoLook, and used them for years without a single
problem.
This is a particular situation that maybe doesn't go on for a long time... I
was just curious to know if some add-ons for OE could provide this feature.

Thanks anyway :)
 
Henry The Mole said:
I am looking for an add-on or something else to filter messages on a
newsgroup by IP and not by e-mail address (a troll is infesting one of my
subscribed ng, and changes e-mail address every time).

Some suggestions?

Thanks in advance.
Kindly regards.
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Henry The Mole.
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The Mole Zone: www.themolezone.net
remove EHILABEPPE to e-mail me
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Try Nfilter http://www.nfilter.org/faq.html

It can filter on any header including "nntp-posting-host"
providing the news server you use supports the "XHDR" command,
otherwise you are limited to headers in the overview.

Also supports regular expressions (case sensitive only, unfortunately)

If you use XP you will need to use an unzip program to extract the files
from np-120.exe as nfilter works, but the self extractor isn't compatible.

Regards

Mel.
 
mel said:
If you use XP you will need to use an unzip program to extract the files
from np-120.exe as nfilter works, but the self extractor isn't compatible.
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I'm curious, why wouldn't the self extractor not be compatible with XP ?
 
Hello, (ProteanThread)!
You wrote on Wed, 6 Apr 2005 10:10:49 -0600:
I'm curious, why wouldn't the self extractor not be compatible with XP ?
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Don't know why, but even in my Win2k the .exe doesn't extract files properly:
renaming as .zip it works perfectly.
Many thanks to mel for this useful tool.
 
Henry said:
I use Outlook Express.
You can set up filters for some part of the messages, but I can't
find a way to filter someone by IP.
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Any other suggestions?
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How do you know what IP number he has?
Where can you read the IP number?
In the headers?
 
Yes, but what has that to do with this problem?
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If you have looked at header information then you know that the IP
Address of some posters shows up in the header. An example of one is:

NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.65.205.96

I'll leave it to you to draw the connection on how he'll know the IP
Address of the poster he wishes to filter.
 
Henry The Mole said:
Hello, Roger!
You wrote on 06 Apr 2005 14:30:23 GMT:


I use Outlook Express.
You can set up filters for some part of the messages, but I can't find a
way
to filter someone by IP.
Thanks anyway.

Any other suggestions?
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I use Outlook Express and Spampal which allows filtering by IP.
http://www.spampal.org

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Frank Bohan
¶ Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.
 
Henry The Mole said:
Hello, (ProteanThread)!
You wrote on Wed, 6 Apr 2005 10:10:49 -0600:


Don't know why, but even in my Win2k the .exe doesn't extract files properly:
renaming as .zip it works perfectly.
Many thanks to mel for this useful tool.
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According to this post both the files are one byte short.


http://groups.google.co.uk/[email protected]


Might be worth trying to fix the length of the final newsproxy.exe
in a file editor.
 
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