Re: spam in usenet groups; is there any setting in gnus to handle?

[Reiner Steib]

On Sat, Nov 08 2008, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:

> Some of the newsgroups that I follow seem to have been overrun with
> spam.  

Maybe choosing a provider that runs cleanfeed might help.

> Now, is there any settings in Gnus that can make those articles get
> killfiled or disappear?  Is there a way to score it 

See the chapter (info "(gnus)Scoring") in the manual.
Here's an excerpt from my score files:

(("from"
  ("@aol.com" -200 nil s)
  ("@hotmail." -200 nil s)
  ("@firemail." -200 nil s)
  ("@nowhere.com" -200 nil s)
  ("@onebox.com" -200 nil s)
  ("@wanadoo.fr" -200 nil s))
 ("subject"
  ("bonus.*casino" -1000 nil r)
  ("$[0-9][0-9]+" -1000 nil r)
  ("\\(discounts\\|million\\|Check 
this\\|adult\\|porn\\|viagra\\|prozac\\|penis\\|weightloss\\|cheapest\\)" -1500 
nil r)
  ("\\(Ink\\|Toner.*\\)Cartridges" -1500 nil r)
  ("Uncertainty Principle" -1500 nil s)
  ("  [0-9]*[0-9][0-9][0-9]$" -1500 nil R)
  ("^[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]+" -1500 nil R)
  ("^\\([Rr][Ee]: +\\)?[^a-z][^a-z][^a-z][^a-z][^a-z]+$" -1 nil R)
  ("\\<\\(sex\\|free\\|girl\\)\\>.*\\<\\(sex\\|free\\|girl\\)\\>" -1500 nil r)
  
("\\<\\(new\\|free\\|low\\)\\>.*\\<\\(hits\\|site\\|sale\\|money\\|price\\)\\>" 
-1501 nil r)
  
("\\<\\(hits\\|site\\|sale\\|money\\|price\\)\\>.*\\<\\(free\\|new\\|low\\)\\>" 
-1502 nil r)
  ("\\<\\(make\\|fast\\|big\\)\\s-*\\(money\\|cash\\|bucks?\\)\\>" -1500 nil r)
  ("^ *\\([(<]none[>)]\\|(unknown)\\|\\|(no subject\\( given\\)?)\\)? *$" -10 
nil r)
  ("\\(for\\|4\\)[- ]*sale" -100 nil r)))

> or make it completely disappear from my Summary buffer?

,----[ (info "(gnus)Score Variables") ]
| `gnus-summary-expunge-below'
|      Don't display the summary lines of articles that have scores lower
|      than this variable.  This is `nil' by default, which means that no
|      articles will be hidden.  This variable is local to the summary
|      buffers, and has to be set from `gnus-summary-mode-hook'.
`----

> I'd rather not set up the spam package
> unless I have to.

Bye, Reiner.
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