[Info-vax] A cry for help

[Scott Dorsey]

In article <ujdh8e$3t513$1 at dont-email.me>,
Dave Froble  <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>On 11/19/2023 4:52 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
>> Mark Daniel wrote:
>>
>>> Created a filter "match all of the following" with "From contains @gmail.com"
>>> + "From isn't in my address book" then perform "Delete message".
>>
>> That's too strong a filter, it will kill posts from people who just happen to
>> have a google email address, but don't post from google groups.
>>
>> Better to filter on "message-id contains @googlegroups.com"
>
>I'm not sure of what you write.  At least in Thunderbird, the filter can be 
>solely on c.o.v, or newsgroups in general, and would not affect your inbound 
>e-mail.  So, yeah, perhaps one would not get posts from a poster with a gmail 
>email account, not really sure.

Most newsreaders are better-designed than that, and allow you to filter on
all kinds of header or even body text, using general expressions.  It is very
common for people to set up killfiles based upon message-ids or the user-agent
file in order to dump Google spam.

>Guess the question is, just how important is c.o.v posts, vs, do you like all 
>the spam?  I chose to avoid the spam.

Yes, but best to lose as few non-spam posts as possible.  Triggering on
message-id or user-agent will have far fewer side effects than dumping
posts from anyone using google email for return addresses.
--scott

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