[Pan-users] Re: Filters

[Lionel B]

On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:07:14 -0500, George Czerw wrote:

> On Wednesday 09 January 2008 12:00:40
> address@hidden wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 02:06:11 +0000 (UTC) From: Lionel B
>> <address@hidden> Subject:
>> [Pan-users] Re: Filters
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>> On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:27 -0800, Phil wrote:
>> > --- Lionel B wrote:
>> >> On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:09:08 -0800, carl wagner wrote:
>> >> > Is where away to filter out incoming post, i.e
>> >>
>> >> MI5-Persecution: stuff
>> >>
>> >> > within pan?
>> >>
>> >> I just hacked up (pan 0.132):
>> >>
>> >> %BOS
>> >> %Score created by Pan on Wed Jan  2 13:07:12 2008 [*] Score:: =-9999
>> >> Subject: M.I.5.P.?e.?r.?s.?e.?c.?u.?t.?i.?o.?n.* %EOS
>> >>
>> >> Seems to do be doing the job at the moment, at least till he gets
>> >> more sophisticated at scrambling his subject line...
>> >
>> > He keeps interposing one of .'`-. between chars of M I 5 in varying
>> > permutations, which mucks up my poor simple filter for some reason,
>> > unless I just knock out all crospostyers to more tha 4 or 5 groups
>> > (hey - not a bad idea anyway).
>> >
>> > Can this filter deal with that?
>>
>> Yes, for the moment. It's a regular expression: the . matches any
>> single character and the .? matches zero or one of any single
>> character.
>>
>> > Also you may want to include "victim" as an alternative to
>> > "persecution".
>>
>> If he starts using it again...
>>
>> > The nutjob keeps putting a space between different letters of victim
>> > or persecution.  I wonder if it's automated - is this comming from a
>> > spamming prog?
>>
>> No, it's coming from a paranoid human. See:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MI-5_Persecution
>>
>> There's even a regular expression filter there (probably better than
>> mine).
> 
> I tried Lionel's filter expression and it works (insofar as getting Pan
> to score the articles at -9999), however the headers still show up in
> the subject.  Should they??? ..or should they disappear from view???

Strange, they do for me (Pan 0.132 on linux amd64). What happens if you 
score some article to -9999 via "Articles" -> "Edit Article's Watch/
Ignore/Score..." and then re-score (did you re-score?)

> Using the filter expression shown in the wikipedia article does nothing.

Oh, right. Haven't tried it.

Lionel

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Lionel B