Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Mar 2000 04:43:21 -0500 (EST) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Fantastic filter for linux-kernel |
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I've been on l-k for quite a while and have seen various spammings and other such occurances come and go from time to time. It is very annoying when it occurs, but for some reason it hasn't seemed to happen for quite some time now - for ME.
Take for example, the Pretty Park virus that was sent out to the list. Oddly, I never received this, and many other things I've seen people complain about...
I just discovered WHY I never receive this garbage, and I'd like to share it with everyone else. In the past, many discussions have taken place on how to properly filter linux-kernel messages into a separate incoming folder, and also how to filter it so that only authentic messages get through, and not spam and other garbage. Various procmail filters had been posted, etc.. and I had installed one of them without much thought, and completely and totally forgot about it.
I just found a mail folder called JUNKMAIL which was not configured in PINE as an incoming folder, and I inspected my procmail filter to find a special ANTI-SPAM linux-kernel recipe. I looked in the folder and to my surprise I found a whack load of SPAM, virus postings, advertising, and numerous other annoyances. I appear to have enabled the filter on August 22, 1998, and it has been running ever since without me remembering. I've examined most of the messages trapped by the filter just now, and in the last year and a half it has captured 528 messages including several hundred spams, several viruses, and other nonesense.
I figured that others may also want to filter linux-kernel with this very useful filter so I'm including it below:
:0 W * ^Sender: owner-linux-.*@vger\.rutgers\.edu * ! ^(((To|Cc):)|( )).*linux.*@vger\.rutgers\.edu JUNK
If anyone sees any problems with the above filter, I'd love to hear about it, and proposed solutions, however I've seen virtually no messages get trapped by this filter that were legit.
I hope some of you find it useful!
Take care, TTYL
-- Mike A. Harris Linux advocate Computer Consultant GNU advocate Capslock Consulting Open Source advocate
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