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  • A poll about postfilter

    From Aioe@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 18 21:58:21 2021
    I am the author of postfilter (https://github.com/Aioe/postfilter), a
    perl script that filters messages posted by local users of a news
    server, verifies as much as possible that they respect the rules of the
    service then accepts or rejects them. Postfilter is not an alternative
    to (py) cleanfeed because it filters only local messages, messages from
    users of other servers are not checked. Aioe.org uses postfilter for its
    users messages.

    Postfilter was first developed about twenty years ago when aioe.org was
    opened, it was rewritten about ten years ago and has only been
    maintained since that time.

    Postfilter has gotten old and it needs updating because usenet has
    changed a lot in the meantime, the number of server users has decreased
    and system resources have increased. Today it is possible to do many
    things that were not possible ten years ago.
    I am considering whether to continue the development.

    I would need to know if there are any other newsmasters using postfilter.

    If no one uses postfilter except me, releasing a real package becomes a
    waste of time, I can very well patch it without caring about the rest.

    If you use it, what functions would you need?

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  • From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to Aioe on Sun Jul 18 22:45:32 2021
    On 7/18/21 1:58 PM, Aioe wrote:
    I would need to know if there are any other newsmasters using postfilter.

    I am not currently using postfilter because the only users of my private
    server are me, myself, and I.

    However, if I were to run a public server I would use postfilter. I
    would also be happy to take functional code and add scaffolding around
    it like init scripts to work on my distro of choice.



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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/07/2021 20:58, Aioe wrote:<br>
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    <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:sd214v$1kan$1@gioia.aioe.org"><br>
    <br>
    If you use it, what functions would you need? <br>
    </blockquote>
    <p>I will try to post a list of my requirements in due course. I am
    assuming you can read my posts.</p>
    <p>If you can't read my posts then you need to stop vandalising the
    newsgroups because some newsgroups are black listing some users'
    posts and so the newsgroups are not in synch with each other.
    Users are the main victim and people keep telling us that
    newsgroups are not so popular as they used to be and this is
    because of some hosts from banana republic are vandalising them!.
    Newsgroups have become like Linux Junk; People love it but they
    don't use it! Its oxymoron.<br>
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  • From D. Stussy@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 9 23:25:28 2021
    "Aioe" wrote in message news:sd214v$1kan$1@gioia.aioe.org...
    I am the author of postfilter (https://github.com/Aioe/postfilter), a
    perl script that filters messages posted by local users of a news
    server, verifies as much as possible that they respect the rules of the
    service then accepts or rejects them. Postfilter is not an alternative
    to (py) cleanfeed because it filters only local messages, messages from
    users of other servers are not checked. Aioe.org uses postfilter for its
    users messages.

    Postfilter was first developed about twenty years ago when aioe.org was
    opened, it was rewritten about ten years ago and has only been
    maintained since that time.

    Postfilter has gotten old and it needs updating because usenet has
    changed a lot in the meantime, the number of server users has decreased
    and system resources have increased. Today it is possible to do many
    things that were not possible ten years ago.
    I am considering whether to continue the development.

    I would need to know if there are any other newsmasters using postfilter.

    If no one uses postfilter except me, releasing a real package becomes a
    waste of time, I can very well patch it without caring about the rest.

    If you use it, what functions would you need?
    ==============
    I use it for adding a "X-no-archive" header (for some posts).

    I also provide a link to the project (http://code.google.com/p/postfilter) on my news server's home web page.

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