Hi Stephen,

Stephen Walsh wrote to Michiel Broek:
SW> Hello Michiel.
SW> 
SW> 03 May 09 14:23, you wrote to me:
SW> 
SW>  SW>> Does the mbse news gating function (news to fidonet) have support
SW>  SW>> for filtering? I've had a quick look at the doc's and if it does
SW>  SW>> it's not standing out!
SW>  SW>>
SW>  SW>> I'm doing some one way gating of some news groups, and one of them
SW>  SW>> has started to get a *lot* of spam. The messages are all links to
SW>  SW>> websites, with only few different subjects.
SW> 
SW>  MB> There is no filtering at all, adding that would be too much for this
SW>  MB> simple function.
SW> 
SW> What's a small light weight package that I can put infront of the mbse 
SW> news
SW> program then (I don't want something like a full or even half a server). 
SW> Just
SW> something that will allow the filtering of the spam/news group.

I don't think there are small lightweight packages to filter spam.

But the real trick is to get the messages without mbse getting them, they
need to be put in newsbatch files or so. Then filter the batch and build a
new batchfile without the spam. Then feed that newsbatch to mbse.

The other trick is a extra server where you store filtered messsages for
mbnews to get.

Both ways are a lot of troubles I think.


The final trick, hack mbnews so that it you feed each fetched message
through some filter.



    Greetings, Michiel Broek

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