[Pan-users] Re: Filters

[George Czerw]

On Wednesday 09 January 2008 12:00:40 address@hidden wrote:
> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 02:06:11 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Lionel B <address@hidden>
> Subject: [Pan-users] Re: Filters
> To: address@hidden
> Message-ID: <address@hidden>
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>
> 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).

I tried Lionel's filter expression and it works (insofar as getting Pan to 
score the articles at -9999), however the headers still show up in the 
subject.  Should they??? ..or should they disappear from view???

Using the filter expression shown in the wikipedia article does nothing.