Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
> Actually, INN could stand a number of improvments; this
> is just one of them. It also needs better multipost
> detection heuristics (although markov chains would evade
> even the best automated heuristics, but the markov
> chains are mostly coming from certain select subnets
> that can be blocked based on the feed path, if the
> news admins are with it), among other things.
I can already smell the hordes of spammers & binary
posters looking for propagation.
What INN could do with was an automatic filter to discard
attachments of any kind to newsgroups that don't include
the ".binary" or "binary." strings.
That and the automatic refusal of HTML posts. Go to http://*
for that :-)
Something like a conf file:
*.answers: nobin nohtml noxpostlimit
*binaries*: bin nohtml
*html*: nobin html
*: nobin nohtml <- Actualy a hardcoded limitation to work arround braindamaged newsadmins.
Best practice: xpostlimit=4
And while we're at it: RBL for usenet spamsites & usenet open sites.
(default on, of course)
> I seem to be fortunate to have a sensible ISP. My
> mail service delays are measured in seconds in
> no more than two digits, I get a week's warning
> whenever there's a planned network outage, and
> news.answers posts are available for a month.
A quantum oddity. Keep & cherish it. As long as you can.
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