[Pan-users] Re: Filters

[Lionel B]

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).

-- 
Lionel B