From: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton) Subject: Re: Killfiles Date: 1997/06/04 Message-Id: <865449783snx@warren.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: uk.singles In article David Reid writes: > >The last 2 are the only ones that have any real effect on spam. >Suggestions for lines that will have a significant effect on spam (not >just a few specific articles) are always welcome. You'll have to translate these into Turnpikese yourself, though it seems to support ordinary regular expressions: Kill repeated patterns in subject line (most spammers seem to think it makes people more likely to read their junk): Subject: .*\$\$\$\$.* Subject: .*\!\!\!\!.* Subject: .*\$\$\$.*\$\$\$.* Subject: .*\!\!\!.*\!\!\!.* Subject: .*\?\?\?.*\?\?\?.* (I used to have "????" too but there is a genuine thread with that subject, as I only found out when reading from Mimir where my kill file is less strict). Kill cross-posts to sex groups: Newsgroups: .*sex.* Kill MIME encoded images and things that are likely to contain them (added bonus of catching Microsoft's multipart duplicate text and HTML): Content-Type: image/.* Content-Type: multipart/.* You could also add the following: Content-Type: text/html.* Kills all HTML postings Newsgroups: .*personals.* Kills cross-posts to personals groups, if you don't take any of them in their own right Newsgroups: .*singles.*personals.* Kills cross-posts to UK.singles Newsgroups: .*personals.*singles.* and any personals group. Subject: .*SWM.* Kills lots of personals N.