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Posted by Chris Lewis on March 7, 2008, 12:02 pm
> On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:23:32 -0000, clewis@nortelnetworks.com (Chris Lewis)
> wrote:
> >> Now why in the world would you want to do that?
> >> I live in a very small rural town. My ISP, for one reason or the other,
has
> >> now hooked up with gmail. For me, it's gmail or two tin cans with strings.
> >
> >You do realize that you're not posting with a gmail address, don't
> >you? A filter on @gmail.com wouldn't affect you.
> You do realize that you are wrong, don't you?
Er, what?
The person I'm replying to is using a from line of meagain@rockvilleUSA
What part of a "filter on @gmail.com won't affect you" don't you understand?
I do know rather more than a little about Usenet. For example, RFC2980 ;-)
> I use a fairly old version of
> Agent for a newsreader, and one of the default choices for filtering is the
> email address. It doesn't even have to be a real email address.
Which is true. Case in point:
> Here is the top of your header:
> Path:
>
<news4.newsguy.com!extra.newsguy.com!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!sn-xt-sjc-05!sn-xt-sjc-10!sn-xt-sjc-01!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail>
> From: clewis@nortelnetworks.com (Chris Lewis)
> Newsgroups: alt.home.repair
> Subject: Re: How to stop spam from google accounts?
> If I want to filter just you, I right click on your post and select "filter"
Right.
> The DEFAULT choice is to filter by your email address. It fills that in to the
> filter for me. If I want to filter out everyone at Nortelnetworks.com, I simply
> highlight and delete "clewis" from in front of the @ sign.
Right, but, if you filtered on "nortel.com", you wouldn't filter out
my messages would you? Or if you had a hate on and wanted to block
people posting via Supernews, "nortelnetworks.com" would hardly be
sufficient would it?
Hint: nortel.com is actually where I'm posting from ;-)
Hint: if you filtered on @gmail.com, you won't filter out
@rockvilleUSA
Which is SteveB's situation. He may well be posting
from google/gmail, but he's _not_ indicating that in the From:
line. Hence, a dumb "From:" filter for @gmail.com or @google.com
will NOT affect him.
More properly, if you want to block postings _from_ google (and
not just the ones who don't know how to set their From lines), it's
better to block on "Path:". And distinguish between those postings
that _originate_ on Google, and those that are just passing through.
Your copy of my path above shows my posting transiting through
google. But that's not where it came from.
--
Chris Lewis,
Age and Treachery will Triumph over Youth and Skill
It's not just anyone who gets a Starship Cruiser class named after them.
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