On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 06:50:57 -0400, Baboso@home.com wrote:
>On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 17:36:51 -0500, General E. Pisthoffe
><Pisthoffe@KWTF-TV.com> wrote:
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>>On 12 Apr 2015 03:34:28 GMT, John Carter <me@mymailsvr.org> wrote:
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>>>Did I miss something lately regarding strangely encoded posts?
>>>
>>>It would be useful if the poster would give us a clue as to the
>>>content of these wierdly named posts.
>>>
>>>Knowing the content of these posts would benefit everyone by not
>>>having to potentially waste bandwidth to determine whether or not
>>>one had some interest.
>>>
>>>John Carter
>>
>>
>>John, just delete them. They are off-topic and passworded. Most are
>>current, popular television program episodes.
>>
>>To avoid DCMA takedowns, a group of posters have resorted to encoding
>>filenames, passwording the files, and posting them in off-topic groups
>>all over Usenet. Only members of the group get the keys, and, NO, you
>>can't join. Pain in the ass, but simply deleting them is a small price
>>to pay for all the other neat stuff available in this and all the
>>other groups that target your interests. (Strangely, they haven't
>>shown up in any of the porno groups yet, but no doubt these blokes
>>will start antagonizing them, too.)
>>
>>General E Pistoffe
>>"and I'm generally pissed off"
>>"and, no, I'm not part of that clandestine group of uploaders"
>>
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>using your kill filter is even a better idea.
Which filtering algorythm to you use? There seems to be little in
common among the filenames or author's ID's. Filtering on a Usenet
provider would seem to cause deletion of legitamate posts from that
provider.
Ideas would be welcome. Thanks.
General E. Pisthoffe
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