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Filter for Google Groups Robo Spam

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From: joegwinn@comcast.net (Joe Gwinn)
Newsgroups: alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent
Subject: Filter for Google Groups Robo Spam
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 16:54:56 -0500
Message-ID: <a4umni9lnknee5bmk2f2u5h4rt55akaj9d@4ax.com>
User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Lines: 16
X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com
X-Trace: sv3-p2b0S+4Au1+XmgeqcRIX5Sxxb6YXwnxq/bXrrddC+HlEW1BWeokU8WlMuLvQqkkxTLxJYW67+od7fFY!/zYgpl86vJgUG1EgqeUIX/rKFgHAftQXv8gUNRSLZIfmjclyjKfmyuaqCBrSsEMXUWM3DTY=
X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com
X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly
X-Postfilter: 1.3.40

by: Joe Gwinn - Thu, 14 Dec 2023 21:54 UTC

For the record, here is the Agent 8 filter I am currently using with
considerable effect:

and

"subject: {\?[^?]*\?[^?]*\?[^?]*\?}" (looks for four question marks)

Be sure to omit the quotes.

The leakage is manageable.

Joe Gwinn

System restarting, wait...

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