Re: Configure your news reader to filter out messages identified as likely spam


"McGarill" <mcgarill@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:LUDoi.319$h11.123@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Configure your mail reader to filter out
email messages identified as likely being spam.
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1.1 What is nfilter?
Nfilter is a supplemental filtering program to your existing newsreader. It
is designed to run transparently alongside any client for Windows such as
Outlook Express, Agent, Netscape, etc.

It is a 32-bit windows console application which will run on Windows '95,
'98 or NT. It is especially useful if your newsreader doesn't have any
filtering capabilities (eg. Netscape). Even if your news reader has
filtering capabilities (eg. Agent), the filter can perform more advanced
filtering on fields that are not normally available to your newsreader.

Nfilter is capable of filtering on any fields that appear in the header of a
news article, not just fields in the overview (normally news clients can
only filter on author, subject, etc). For example, it can filter on path
(eg. all posts from news.foo.net), newsgroups (eg. all posts cross-posted to
alt.foo), nntp-posting-host, etc, etc.

Nfilter does this by acting as a local news proxy. It takes commands from
your news client and passes them on to your news server. It analyses the
list of message headers returned by your news server and, based on the
filter rules that you write, either drops the headers so that you don't see
them or marks them with a flag to let you know they are filtered.

1.2 I'm on AOL, can I use nfilter?
These comments from thynkr@xxxxxxx, thanks thynkr:

"Access to an NNTP port on your news server. This rules out AOL users who
read Usenet from AOL servers, sorry. However you do have the option of
subscribing and connecting to any commercial news service, using any
newsreader that will run on your computer. Information on how to do this may
be found on news:aol.newsgroups.help.";

Okay, the information can be found at http://home1.gte.net/docthomp/AOL.htm.
I am not afiliated with the person who maintains that site, but that is
where I found out how to do it.

There is a modern urban legend / old wives tale afoot which holds that
access to nntp servers is somehow blocked by AOL. This is not true. In
reality, only AOL subscribers can access *AOL's* news servers, and only
using the (abysmal) AOL news client. This is simply because AOL's news
servers are a) non-nntp-compliant and b) firewalled. It's a pity that AOL
refuses to set up true nntp servers for the use of its customers, because
AOL's newsfeed ranks among the best in the world. Essentially, all one has
to do is:

a.. 1) Subscribe to a commercial news service such as Supernews, Newsguy,
et. alia,
b.. 2) Obtain, install and run the newsreader of one's choice,
c.. 3) Login to one's AOL connection in the normal way,
d.. 4) Connect to the nntp server through the AOL connection, in much the
same way as one might run a web browser externally to the AOL client.
http://www.nfilter.org/faq.html#1.1


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