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From: Ray Banana <rayban@raybanana.net>
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Subject: Re: yEnc-encoded articles in newsgroups
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2024 17:58:41 +0100
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Thus spake Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.org>
 
> Same here. After looking deeper, these seem mostly in groups that my
> servers do not carry, and if they are carried, the articles are filtered by
> cleanfeed (before spamassassin in my setup).

That is also the case here. I just added a check for binary articles to
filter_first (before all tests) to add the articles to the NoCem queue
and then continue with the normal cleanfeed processing. I have, however,
added a filter to eliminate the most obvious bogus group names like "a.b.something".

> Seeing that Ray seems to carry these groups, and looks like he's doing a
> great job identifying the articles, I'm going to delay diving into this
> issue. Maybe take some time to work with Perl without tearing my hair out
> first :)

;-)

PS: You seem to have an apprentice spam boy on i2pn2: <uu8uit$3h91i$1@i2pn2.org> 

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