[Pan-users] Re: How to filter spam from Gmane?

[Lynda Metref]

Thank you for your answer, I dont think there is so many spam also to
bother trying this solution, moreover I am not sure gmane.spam.detected
is accessible...

On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 06:33:09 -0700, Duncan wrote:

> Lynda Metref posted
> <address@hidden>,
> excerpted below,  on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:33:24 +0800:
> 
>> I use pan to read mailing lists through Gmane. Gmane Has a spam filter
>> that cross-post the spam to gmane.spam.detected. Thus I like to have a
>> filter reading the Xref header and don't show nor download the message
>> containing "gmane.spam.detected" in it. How can I do this with Pan? Does
>> someone know a better solution?
> 
> One thing that /might/ work, which I have /not/ tried, so I don't know,
> would be to subscribe to gmane.spam.detected, and make a point of always
> loading it first.  If you set the scoring and filters to ignore everything
> in that group, marking read or deleting (it's possible it'll work with
> mark-read but not with delete, due to cross-group dynamics), then load
> your regular group, PAN may continue to honor the scores in other groups.
> Obviously, this would only work on gmane (tho a similar strategy could be
> used on servers that carry a control.cancel group and don't actually honor
> cancels), and involves a manual step, so it's only worth the trouble if
> the problem gets big enough.  As I said, the problem hasn't been a big one
> on my gmane groups, so I haven't bothered trying this, yet.  If you do,
> please reply with the results, so I know.