gmane.discuss

Bruno Haible | 13 Jun 00:19

filter out sourceforge.net advertisement?

Dear Lars,

First, thank you for hosting gmane!

In recent times, sourceforge.net hosted mailing lists not only carry a trailer
indicating the mailing list (harmless) but also advertisements (sometimes
offensive ones). In <http://gmane.org/conv.php> you say that during the
mail -> news conversion,
  "Recognizable list admin banners are removed from message bodies."

Could you please configure the
   gmane.lisp.clisp.announce
   gmane.lisp.clisp.devel
   gmane.lisp.clisp.general
lists so that the banner starting with the text
  "This SF.net email is sponsored by: ..."
is removed?

You find an example of this banner here:
  <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.clisp.devel/18227>

Sam Steingold, the initiator of the clisp lists in gmane, suggested to me
to write you about this issue. I'm a regular user of these mailing lists.

Thank you very much for what you can do!

Bruno

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Sam Steingold | 13 Jun 00:27

Re: filter out sourceforge.net advertisement?


Dear Lars & Bruno,

Bruno Haible wrote:
| First, thank you for hosting gmane!

Yes!

| In recent times, sourceforge.net hosted mailing lists not only carry a
trailer
| indicating the mailing list (harmless) but also advertisements (sometimes
| offensive ones). In <http://gmane.org/conv.php> you say that during the
| mail -> news conversion,
|   "Recognizable list admin banners are removed from message bodies."
|
| Could you please configure the
|    gmane.lisp.clisp.announce
|    gmane.lisp.clisp.devel
|    gmane.lisp.clisp.general
| lists so that the banner starting with the text
|   "This SF.net email is sponsored by: ..."
| is removed?
|
| You find an example of this banner here:
|   <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.clisp.devel/18227>

I think gmane.org carries many SF.net mailing lists, so, IMO, this
should be a standard feature for all such lists, not just clisp-related
ones.
it would also be nice if the archives could be purged as well.

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Frank Ellermann | 13 Jun 15:46

Re: filter out sourceforge.net advertisement?

Bruno Haible wrote:

> "Recognizable list admin banners are removed from message bodies."
...^^^^^^^^^^^^
The trailer is apparently introduced by a line of 72 hypen-minus
if I counted it correctly - and 72 is at least a plausible value.
You can also propose to edit this on the Gmane page for the list:

Go to <http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.clisp.devel>, click "edit"
at the bottom, then "edit these values".  For obscure reasons the
Web form doesn't show you an empty "trailer" setting, but you can 
still propose it as comment, e.g., for another list it is trailer
^-------------------------------------------$

...BUT...

> <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.clisp.devel/18227>

See <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.clisp.devel/18227/raw>,
this mail was a MIME multipart message with attachments.  The
sourceforge-spamvertizer - I don't use the term "mailing list"
for any software changing a single bit of the body - decided to
add its spam in an additional text/plain part at the end, and
AFAIK Gmane's "trailer" logic won't touch MIME multipart mails,
as it is far too easy to make it worse.

 Frank

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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen | 14 Jun 18:02

Re: filter out sourceforge.net advertisement?

Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org> writes:

> Could you please configure the
>    gmane.lisp.clisp.announce
>    gmane.lisp.clisp.devel
>    gmane.lisp.clisp.general
> lists so that the banner starting with the text
>   "This SF.net email is sponsored by: ..."
> is removed?

Sure.  I don't remove ad trailers as a default (as these aren't list
headers/trailers per se, but "content"), but if the list admin asks me,
they are removed.

So I've now updated gmane.conf.

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