Is there a way to automatically delete messages through MUTIL or any other utility? Preferably, area specific.

I've gotten tired of repeated, almost daily postings by a select few posters
in some of the "Promo" echo areas. Rather than comletely dropping the area, being able to delete those postings by poster name would be nice.

Beery

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Is there a way to automatically delete messages through MUTIL or any other utility? Preferably, area specific.

I've gotten tired of repeated, almost daily postings by a select few posters in some of the "Promo" echo areas. Rather than comletely dropping the area, being able to delete those postings by poster name would be nice.

There was a way with mbbsutil when we had that but I'm not sure if that ability
was ever added to mutil.

You could use the twit keyword in your ImportEchoMail stanza of mutil when you import echomail. If you are passing the areas in question to other nodes that is not a good idea since they won't recieve those messages either.

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Is there a way to automatically delete messages through MUTIL or any other utility? Preferably, area specific.

I've gotten tired of repeated, almost daily postings by a select few posters in some of the "Promo" echo areas. Rather than comletely dropping the area, being able to delete those postings by poster name would be nice.

I can't help but wonder if there were a way that this could be done in
MPL.
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Is there a way to automatically delete messages through MUTIL or any
other utility? Preferably, area specific.

I've gotten tired of repeated, almost daily postings by a select few posters in some of the "Promo" echo areas. Rather than comletely
dropping the area, being able to delete those postings by poster name would be nice.

Yes, you can "twit" them in your MUTIL.INI file assuming their messages are coming through echomail. If they are posting the messages locally on your
BBS then it will not remove them.

Mystic used to have a function that did it for all existing messages bases using MBBSUTIL but I never reproduced it into MUTIL. Maybe I will add that back in to the "PurgeMessages" function so you can define twit filters there. I'll put that on the TODO list but I don't know when I'll get it done.

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Thanks for considering to add a "twit" function.

I'm sure others are experiencing it, however, I have some echos where some individuals are posting daily advertisements of their website and have pretty much rendered those echos useless. If I can delete those messages by either Subject, From, or address, that would be nice.


Beery

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almost daily postings by a select few posters

Wait -- you have posters?! Some people have all the luck :-)

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Thanks for considering to add a "twit" function.

I'm sure others are experiencing it, however, I have some echos where
some individuals are posting daily advertisements of their website and have pretty much rendered those echos useless. If I can delete those messages by either Subject, From, or address, that would be nice.

You can twit people by the From already but its not going to be specific to a certain echo area, although that might even be something I could do. I'd
have to look into the code to see how easy that would be and what the impact would be on performance.

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On 01-23-19 03:24, g00r00 wrote to Beery <=-

Mystic used to have a function that did it for all existing messages
bases using MBBSUTIL but I never reproduced it into MUTIL. Maybe I
will add that back in to the "PurgeMessages" function so you can define twit filters there. I'll put that on the TODO list but I don't know
when I'll get it done.

Being able to apply twit filters locally makes more sense. You really don't want to be doing it to echomail that gets forwarded.


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Being able to apply twit filters locally makes more sense. You really don't want to be doing it to echomail that gets forwarded.

Its intentionally designed to block echomail :)

If you have someone spamming your local message base from your own BBS the idea is that you can handle that by removing their access or even their account, blocking their IP, and so on.

But when you're running a network you have no defense if you need to moderate someone (without this feature). Or if you're an endpoint system and you want to filter someone you have no way to do that without this feature.

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