Hi Stephen,

Stephen Walsh wrote to Michiel Broek:
SW> Hello Michiel.
SW> 
SW> 04 May 09 21:00, you wrote to me:
SW> 
SW>  SW>  MB>> There is no filtering at all, adding that would
be too much
SW>  SW>  MB>> for this simple function.
SW>  SW>>
SW>  SW>> What's a small light weight package that I can put infront of the
SW>  SW>> mbse news program then (I don't want something like a full or even
SW>  SW>> half a server). Just something that will allow the filtering of
SW>  SW>> the spam/news group.
SW> 
SW>  MB> I don't think there are small lightweight packages to filter spam.
SW> [...]
SW>  MB> Both ways are a lot of troubles I think.
SW> 
SW> It would be far less work to just stop gating that area.. Pitty as there 
SW> is
SW> some really good game messages in there.

That's allways the difficult part of the choice to make.

SW>  MB> The final trick, hack mbnews so that it you feed each fetched message
SW>  MB> through some filter.
SW> 
SW> If I was a programmer then that would have been done, and a patch sent to 
SW> you
SW> already!

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