In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (G John Lapeyre) writes: > I don't see why people let a little spam get to them. Its bad, > but its life. About one out of 50 or 100 messages on debian-user is like It's not that difficult to set up procmail to catch most of the spam. And we do have spamdb in hamm.
> Question is how many debain users prefer to access the list via > usenet ? I prefer to receive the lists by mail. <off-topic> I've recently started piping my incoming debian-user & debian-devel messages through a non.mime sed filter before piping them to mail2news. Based on the tests I've run on messages in my /var/spool/news/debian/* directories this filter deletes all of the MIME cruft and appears to leave the clear text intact. You'll also note the I'm striping any existing Distribution: header. I mark all incoming messages Distribution: local when they are gatewayed to news. This is so that they won't get reposted to the group. Recently I found that some mailing list messages arrive with an existing Distribution: header. Mail2news won't overwrite an existing header. Maybe I ought to report this as a bug... Here's the filter : /^Distribution:/d /=_NextPart_/,/=_NextPart_/d /^Content-Type:.*$/d /^Content-Transfer.*$/d /charset="iso\-8859\-1/d s/=$// s/=20$// </off-topic> -- _ _ Steve Kostecke | (_)_ __ _ ___ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / http://kostecke.home.ml.org | | | | | | |_| |> < |_|_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\_\ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .