Re: Yet another stupid language war (was: ... the only languages you need!!)

[ts@majakka.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)]

/ADA and Pascal SUCK/j
/Yet another stupid/j
/^Newsgroups: .*,.*,.*,.*,.*,.*,.*,/h:=:j

-From: ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/tspost17.zip information file
-Subject: Re: A kill file example

[Q: How to avoid on the Usent news hostile or boring posters,
incessant bickering and net abuse.]

Consider using KILL files. Here is information that just might be of
some interest.

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# This is an example rn kill file ~/News/rec/humor/KILL
# By prof. Timo Salmi, Mon 3-Jun-96
#
# It discards unread all postings from me in news:rec.humor
# Easy to adapt to other newsgroups or other posters!
#
# ts@ is the first part of my email address.
# The modifier h means look through the headers of the articles.
# The command j means junk.
# The command = shows the subjects of the messages being discarded.
# The : is a command separator.
#
/^From: ts@/h:=:j
#
# Or to make it more specific
# /^From: ts@uwasa.fi/h:=:j
#
# Let's not stop here, but also discard all articles that have any
# reference to me anywhere in the message. Of course this might lead
# to an overkill (eg Timothy would be a trigger). A better choice
# of keys might be necessary / useful in actual practice.
#
/timo/a:=:j
/salmi/a:=:j
#
# After you have seen that your customization works, you might wish
# to leave out the subject lister := like this
# /salmi/a:j
#
# A tip adapted from the news:news.admin.net-abuse.misc FAQ
# If you wish to kill excessively crossposted articles, use e.g.
# /^Newsgroups: .*,.*,.*,.*,.*,.*,.*,/h:=:j
# This marks as killed articles crossposted to more than 7 newsgroups.
#
# For more information on kill files plese see e.g.
#  7280 Oct 21 1995 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/doc-net/killfile.zip
#  killfile.zip rn newsreader KILL file FAQ from Leanne Phillips
#
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Another useful system to know against abuse are the email filters.
They enable you to sort the incoming email and to avoid email you
don't want to have. If you are an elm user, try
  man filter
and
  which filter
to ascertain whether your system has a filter program.  If it does,
put a line like this into your ~/.forward file
  "| /usr/local/bin/filter -o ${HOME}/.elm/filter.errors"

Then create a ~/.elm/filter-rules file. If you wish to avoid, say,
my email, put the following line into it
  if (from = "ts@uwasa.fi") then delete
or more benevolently
  if (from = "listserv@") then save /your/full/path/MailFromListserv

Note that you should not put empty lines into the said files, but
you can make it more readable since comments are allowed. It you put
# (the hash) as the first character on the row, it will be deemed a
comment.

As you see my signature ends with this notification:
>Spam foiling in effect.  My email filter autoresponder will return a
>required email password to users not yet in the privileges database.

I am frequently asked by the similarly spam-targeted fellow users
about my spam foiling password method (on Unix). Since I cannot
answer these questions individually, I have made the information
available via WWW. You'll find it through my home page (see my
signature) by clicking the "no-spam" thumbnail image.

   All the best, Timo

....................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi   Co-moderator of news:comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at ftp:// & http://garbo.uwasa.fi/ archives 193.166.120.5
Department of Accounting and Business Finance  ; University of Vaasa
mailto:ts@uwasa.fi <http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/>  ; FIN-65101,  Finland

Spam foiling in effect.  My email filter autoresponder will return a
required email password to users not yet in the privileges database.