Re: Gnus fetch freezes emacs

2023-07-04 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Stephen Berman writes: > On Tue, 04 Jul 2023 10:02:34 -0700 Eric Abrahamsen > wrote: > >> Stephen Berman writes: [...] > This: > > (defun srb-gnus-group-get-new-news (&optional arg one-level) >(interactive "P") >(with-timeout (1 (kill-buffer (nntp-find-connection-buffer > nntp-serv

Re: A look at free.usenet reveals the need for matching on high entropy random strings

2023-07-04 Thread Emanuel Berg
Richmond wrote: > If I say (L)ower (a)uthor (r)egular expression (p)ermanent > and then enter ^.{128,}$ that should match any from field of > more than 127 characters right? It doesn't work. > Nothing I have tried works. (re-search-forward "^.\\{10,\\}$") ;; hide ;; 456789 ;; find me, 10+ chars

Re: A look at free.usenet reveals the need for matching on high entropy random strings

2023-07-04 Thread Emanuel Berg
Richmond wrote: >>> A look at free.usenet reveals the need for matching on >>> high entropy random strings. These are being used in the >>> from header to thwart filters. >> >> Are you on Usenet with news.eternal-september.org ? > > I am on usenet with news.solani.org . OK! > I forgot that gmane

Re: A look at free.usenet reveals the need for matching on high entropy random strings

2023-07-04 Thread Richmond
Richmond writes: > Richmond writes: > >> Emanuel Berg writes: >> >>> Richmond wrote: >>> A look at free.usenet reveals the need for matching on high entropy random strings. These are being used in the from header to thwart filters. >>> >>> Are you on Usenet with news.eternal-sept

Re: A look at free.usenet reveals the need for matching on high entropy random strings

2023-07-04 Thread Richmond
Richmond writes: > Emanuel Berg writes: > >> Richmond wrote: >> >>> A look at free.usenet reveals the need for matching on high >>> entropy random strings. These are being used in the from >>> header to thwart filters. >> >> Are you on Usenet with news.eternal-september.org ? > > I am on usenet

Re: A look at free.usenet reveals the need for matching on high entropy random strings

2023-07-04 Thread Richmond
Emanuel Berg writes: > Richmond wrote: > >> A look at free.usenet reveals the need for matching on high >> entropy random strings. These are being used in the from >> header to thwart filters. > > Are you on Usenet with news.eternal-september.org ? I am on usenet with news.solani.org . I forgot

Re: A look at free.usenet reveals the need for matching on high entropy random strings

2023-07-04 Thread Emanuel Berg
Richmond wrote: > A look at free.usenet reveals the need for matching on high > entropy random strings. These are being used in the from > header to thwart filters. Are you on Usenet with news.eternal-september.org ? -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal

A look at free.usenet reveals the need for matching on high entropy random strings

2023-07-04 Thread Richmond
A look at free.usenet reveals the need for matching on high entropy random strings. These are being used in the from header to thwart filters. It ought to be possible to match on a high entropy string. Is it possible? Perhaps re-use password strength measuring code.

Re: Gnus fetch freezes emacs

2023-07-04 Thread Stephen Berman
On Tue, 04 Jul 2023 10:02:34 -0700 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > Stephen Berman writes: > >> On Mon, 03 Jul 2023 09:36:26 -0700 Eric Abrahamsen >> wrote: >> >>> Eric S Fraga writes: >>> On Sunday, 2 Jul 2023 at 16:59, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > If everyone's hitting this with NNTP servers

Re: Gnus fetch freezes emacs

2023-07-04 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Stephen Berman writes: > On Mon, 03 Jul 2023 09:36:26 -0700 Eric Abrahamsen > wrote: > >> Eric S Fraga writes: >> >>> On Sunday, 2 Jul 2023 at 16:59, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: If everyone's hitting this with NNTP servers, you can set `nntp-connection-timeout' to a number of seconds. It

Re: Gnus fetch freezes emacs

2023-07-04 Thread Stephen Berman
On Mon, 03 Jul 2023 09:36:26 -0700 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > Eric S Fraga writes: > >> On Sunday, 2 Jul 2023 at 16:59, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >>> If everyone's hitting this with NNTP servers, you can set >>> `nntp-connection-timeout' to a number of seconds. It is nil by default, >>> which I gue

Re: Gnus fetch freezes emacs

2023-07-04 Thread Robert Pluim
> On Mon, 03 Jul 2023 09:22:38 -1000, Bob Newell > said: >> So this works, in the sense that it stops me waiting forever... However, >> it seems (early days yet) that when it fails to open the connection to >> an NNTP server, it stops retrieving news and I have to hit 'g' aga