Re: [Pan-users] Filter on news server?

[Duncan]

Bob Halloran posted on Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:56:24 -0400 as excerpted:

> I've tried setting up filters in the Score file to block spam entries
> based on the news server (Message-ID:<address@hidden>), with no luck.
> What obvious thing am I missing? Thanks.

You don't mention what version of pan (and your user-agent string says 
mozilla, presumably you're NOT using gmane.org's list2news gateway to 
follow this list using pan, or I could get it from the headers), but 
khaley recently added full-header scoring, altho scoring on non-overview 
headers won't work until the message is actually downloaded, since that's 
where the headers are to be found.  I believe that made it into 0.135, 
but believe it's NOT yet in 0.134.

I believe the message-id is in the overviews, but there's no GUI to add 
it as a scoring header yet (only references, upthread message-ids), so it 
would have to be added to the scorefile manually.  Or you could use add 
subthread (which will use the references header), then edit the scorefile 
and change the header to message-id manually.

Meanwhile, the scorefile uses regular expressions not shell globs for the 
header scoring.  (It uses globbing for the newsgroups entries only, 
regexes for the individual header match-lines.)

Your format above seems to be globbing, not regex, so you need to change 
that.  In particular, "." (dot) means any character, while "*" (star) 
means 0-or-more-of-the-previous-character.  So as-is, you're saying 
<<<<<&newsxserver> would match (zero or more <, any character can replace 
the dot).

Try  Message-ID: <address@hidden>

Pan's scorefile format is much like slrns, but AFAIK without the fancy 
stuff like includes.  See

http://www.slrn.org/docs/score.txt

However, it has the case insensitivity (but not the other differences) of 
the xnews scorefile format:

http://xnews.remarqs.net/scoring.txt

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