On 2017-11-22 03:21:33 +0000, Worker said:
> On 2017-11-21 20:06:36 +0000, Percy Dovetonsils said:
>
>> On 2017-11-21 13:39:15 -0500, Worker said:
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>>> On 2017-11-21 16:00:44 +0000, Percy Dovetonsils said:
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>>>> Looking to find these
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>>> Wouldn't this also filter out anything that legitimately uses rars and pars?
>>
>> I'm glad you asked because I went back and noticed an error in my Rar filter.
>> It should be set to "if ALL of the following" as in the par filter. Not
>> "if any".
>> And no, it shouldn't because--(and here's the secret)-- if you check
>> the spammer's posts they have a quotation mark after rar and par.
>> Legit posts don't seem to have it.
>> So the quotation mark in the rule should filter the spam out but leave
>> legit posts alone.
>
> It appears that the filter is catching things that it shouldn't. In the
> group a.b.teevee, there is a post of the Wonder Years in which
> everything is tagged by the filter. Then there is a post labeled
> 50.Central.S01E04.A.New.Superhero [snip] that has its par2s tagged.
> It's likely that there are many others.
Worker, you are correct. Looks like it would be best to only activate
these filters when loading the Beatle Group and unactivate them for all
other newsgroups. My N.R. doesn't do group specific filtering.
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