How to filter troll posts - permanently
 

Steve Wertz wrote:
> No, it's not a troll, but it is kinda long.
>
> I had some free time and I wrote up some installation instructions
> for NewsProxy/nfilter for use in alt.food.barbecue and
> alt.food.binaries. Included is a nfilter.dat file that will
> filter all the current troll posts in those two groups.

Ahh, did a quick Google to find out what NewsProxy is. For others, here's a
nice link that describes it well:
http://www.aapcsite.plus.com/newsproxy.html

>
> Grab the instructions from:
>
> http://www.io.com/~sqwertz/nfilter/nfilterforafb.txt
>
> Unfortunately the download links in that file don't seem to be
> highlighted (anybody know why?),

Because it's a .txt file being displayed. HTML links (highlights) include
hidden references, for a link, it would be something like:
HREF="newsproxy-0.5a.tar.gz">newsproxy-0.5a.tar.gz</A> Which since I'm
writing in plain txt should stay in plain language.



Nice work.

D
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On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 17:54:49 -0500, Steve Wertz
> wrote:

>Oh well. I'll try and html-ify it. Now where'd I put that yellow
>Dummies book...

Don't bother with the book. I just HTMLed it and mailed it to you. Let
me know if it doesn't come through okay, and I'll put it up on my
webbage for you to grab.

It's ugly, but it is HTML. Let me know if it needs to be tweaked; I
did it in a big hurry.

--
Kevin S. Wilson
Tech Writer at a University Somewhere in Idaho
"Anything, when cooked in large enough batches, will be vile."
--Dag Right-square-bracket-gren, in alt.religion.kibology

How to filter troll posts - permanently
 

Steve,

Looks like great work! Thank you.

Happy Q'en,
BBQ

How to filter troll posts - permanently
 

Nice job Steve. I can use most of that internal to NewsRover
without adding on a proxy-filter thingy.
--
M&M ("When You're Over The Hill You Pick Up Speed")

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Steve Wertz > wrote in message
...

> I noticed our troll is happily trolling away at rec.food.cooking
> now. Much more action over there - we tried to tell he/she/it
> that month ago, but did it listen? No.

Didn't anybody ever tell you...don't feed the trolls?
Did you listen? No!
The mind of net dolts like yourself, I'll never understand.
Now be gone. You're like a gnat!

How to filter troll posts - permanently
 

"Steve Wertz" > wrote in message
...
> I updated nfilter.dat.
>
> 1. Contributors on the Google exception list were getting funky
> characters appended to their subjects. This is fixed.
>
> 2. Added Wyle Coyote to drop list.
>
> Posting this to alt.binaries.food since I mis-typed the group name
> in the original post.
>
> I noticed our troll is happily trolling away at rec.food.cooking
> now. Much more action over there - we tried to tell he/she/it
> that month ago, but did it listen? No.
>
> -sw
>


Steve, thanks for the tool. When I get a chance, I need to e-mail you
directly. I have the addy. Thanks.
kili