full-disclosure - Shortcut...... may cause 100% cpu use!!!

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From: jsage at finchhaven.com (John Sage)
Subject: Shortcut...... may cause 100% cpu use!!!

Gregory, et al:

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 02:07:23PM -0800, Gregory A. Gilliss wrote:
> Okay, I've enjoyed about as much of this as I can stand >-)
> 
> Here's a new vulnerability: filtering out annoying peoples' postings
> on mailing lists. For purposes of example, we'll use FD and Bipin.
> (BTW, I did not come up with this, I'm just relaying it for educational
> purposes only etc):
> 
> Let's say that I have concluded that any post from Bipin is a waste of
> bandwidth. The following course of action keeps the bandwidth wasters' 
> postings to FD from showing up in my inbox:                                
> 
> 1) install procmail (if you don't already use it)
> 2) touch ~/.procmailrc (see above)
> 3) include the following procmail rule in ~/.procmailrc:
> 
> :0
> * ^X-BeenThere: .*full-disclosure@...ts\.netsys\.com
> * ? formail -x"From:" -x"From" -x"Sender:" | egrep -is -f $HOME/.mutt/blacklist.
> fd
> /dev/null

/* snip */

as with perl, there's more than one way to do it.

Here's what I've had in place for some time:

:0:
# Luz3rz L1zt
* ^From:.*(other_people_snipped_to_avoid_insulting_anyone_for_some_reason|visitbipin@...oo\.com|door_hUNT3R@...ckcodemail\.com)
Luz3rz_L1zt

I too get to see the replies where I want them, but anything from
Blipin (or whatever his name is..) and a few select others :-) goes
where I don't need to be bothered maybe more often than once a week,
say... 



- John
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