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  • Fw: Anybody got a good filter to remove the sporgers?

    From J@J@M to alt.free.newsservers on Tue Jun 9 22:00:28 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.free.newsservers

    On Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:18:27 -0600, james moffat <spam.spam@distributel.net> wrote:
    On Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:59:28 -0400, mtngoat <me@mynoggin.org> wrote:
    On Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:18:10 -0400, Arthur T. <arthur@munged.invalid> wrote: >>>In Message-ID:<283e2l5orm7vpbm1n00jnoposutki58bul@4ax.com>, mtngoat <me@mynoggin.org> wrote:

    ... <snips>

    Respectfully , I just checked the group you are talking about and
    found nothing that matches what you are describing. No splorge of any
    kind that I can see. But I can also offer this:
    Subject:{[a-zA-Z0-9]{24}}
    it will filter any subject that has a continuous subject (ie no
    periods or commas or spaces etc.) with the last number being the
    length of the subject line.
    ME

    this syntax also works in agent 1.93 (i have 8.0, but i use 40tude dialog),
    and free newsservers that carry binaries tend to have short retention e.g.:

    =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= PuTTY log 2026.06.09 ...
    Will use SOCKS 5 proxy at localhost:9150 to connect to news.neodome.net:119 >200 news.neodome.net InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.6.3 ready (posting ok) >500 What?
    listgroup alt.binaries.sounds.lossless.24bit
    211 19 173402 173421 alt.binaries.sounds.lossless.24bit
    173407
    ... <snips>
    173421

    but for plain text usenet searches, "blueworld" seems to be mostly complete (i.e. from 1981 forward), e.g., has "mtngoat" and "@easynews", 21 years ago:

    =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= PuTTY log 2026.06.09 ...
    Will use SOCKS 5 proxy at localhost:9150 to connect to news.blueworldhosting.com:119
    200 nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.8.0
    500 What?
    article <4i1rf1thrm1s0jq964aqia55iqtfpof1ou@4ax.com>
    220 0 <4i1rf1thrm1s0jq964aqia55iqtfpof1ou@4ax.com> article
    ... <snips>
    From: MtnGoat <None@Given.org>
    Newsgroups: alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent
    Subject: Re: heavy problems when downloading headers in some groups with A3 >Message-ID: <4i1rf1thrm1s0jq964aqia55iqtfpof1ou@4ax.com>
    X-Complaints-To: abuse@easynews.com
    Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 05:34:15 GMT
    ...
    This is an upgrade from the latest v.2 on Windows2000 (fully patched).
    AMD 3200, 1GB DDR, mucho hard drive space.
    MGoat.
    [end quoted excerpts]

    the "csiph" web2news server has long article retention (10.8 years) and
    will search headers and body across all newsgroups on that server, e.g.:

    (using Tor Browser 15.0.15)
    https://csiph.com/search?q=from%3Amtngoat
    ...
    1 articles in 1 threads for "from:mtngoat" (page 1 of 1)
    Activity: 2026 (1)
    Re: Anybody got a good filter to remove the sporgers?
    mtngoat u Mon, 8 Jun 2026 22:59:28 +0000 u alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent

    so for searching for anything posted in the plain text usenet world for
    over the last decade, without knowing what newsgroup(s) to search, then
    the csiph web server is the place to start looking . . . also recommend
    see news:news.software.nntp for detailed discussions about nntp servers

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  • From Ralph Fox@-rf-nz-@-.invalid to alt.free.newsservers on Wed Jun 10 13:24:47 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.free.newsservers

    On Tue, 9 Jun 2026 22:00:28 +0200 (CEST), D wrote:

    But I can also offer this:
    Subject:{[a-zA-Z0-9]{24}}
    it will filter any subject that has a continuous subject (ie no
    periods or commas or spaces etc.) with the last number being the
    length of the subject line.
    ME

    this syntax also works in agent 1.93 (i have 8.0,

    This syntax does _not_ work in either Agent 1.93 or Agent 8.0.

    Agent's version of regex does _not_ support the {24} being the length.
    --
    Kind regards
    Ralph Fox
    EfaeN+A

    rCiN+AHanY+a a nRao|# nRco nRab|ArCiN+Ab||e, |+onne |+u nRaecb||e h|+|anRc.
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