Date: 01 Sep 2006 09:23:46
From: canopus56
Subject: Repost: How to filter a usenet group with MS Outlook Express using the connecter-maven technique
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Bi-Monthly Repost for group newbies:
Step-by-by guide for setting up in MS Outlook Express using
sci.astro.amateur as an example:
http://members.csolutions.net/fisherka/astronote/notes/Outlookfiltering.html
The overrunning of usenet news groups by net trolls, right-wing facist
bloggers, agressive cyber bullies and persons with mental health problems
has reached the point where most unmoderated usenet newsgroups have become
unuseable. Such trollers have become more skilled at defeating negative
software filters.
Negative software filters work by identifying some unique characteristic of
the poster (mail name, source domain, unique string in posts) and the
blocking that message. To defeat negative filters, computer skilled trolls
use morphing identities and anonymous remailers. The widely distributed
Microsoft Outlook Express news reader is not very robust against these
negative filter defeating techniques. For example, in Outlook Express, it is
not possible to filter based on a text string within the body of a message.
This webpage discusses an alternative filtering solution and provides a
step-by-step guide for setting up Outlook Express to filter based on a
positive filtering, coined here, as the connector-maven filtering technique.
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