I use Thunderbird to read Usenet. Recently sci.physics.relativity has
been getting hundreds of spam posts each day, completely overwhelming legitimate content. These spam posts share the property that they are
written in a non-latin script.
Thunderbird implements message filters that can mark a message Read. So
I created a filter to run on sci.physics.relativity that marks messages
Read. Then when reading the newsgroups, I simply display only unread messages. The key to making this work is to craft the filter so it marks messages in which the Subject matches any of a dozen characters picked
from some spam messages.
This doesn't completely eliminate the spam, but it is now only a few
messages per day.
On 1/29/2024 7:48 PM, Nico Kozรกk Pรกsztori wrote:
There is nothing democratic about the EU. A fake powerless parliament.
1/3 of deputies in the pay of Soros. Quite sickening.
Why hadn't you "Russians" found that out in 1917? You didn't even know
that before invading Ukraine. You're like babies. You need direction,
and like babies, you try to get your directions from people to your
west. Fuck you Hanson!
On 2/3/2024 7:54 AM, J. J. Lodder wrote:
Definitely, but what is the motivation or goal of the spammers? ItThe only reason for posting spam of this nature would be deliberate
mayhem, since it was not intended to be read.
It is a kind of DOS attack,
doesn't make sense.
On 2/3/2024 7:54 AM, J. J. Lodder wrote:
Definitely, but what is the motivation or goal of the spammers? ItThe only reason for posting spam of this nature would be deliberate
mayhem, since it was not intended to be read.
It is a kind of DOS attack,
doesn't make sense.
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