Re: How I got rid of those spam posts on c.l.t

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:11:17 +1000, Alexandre Ferrieux <alexandre.ferrieux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Apr 22, 3:00 pm, Alexandre Ferrieux <alexandre.ferri...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Apr 22, 1:23 am, "Kam-Hung Soh" <kamhung....@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:30:59 +1000, Alexandre Ferrieux

> <alexandre.ferri...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,

> > If like me you are using Google Groups with Firefox, and are suffering
> > from the huge amount of spam posts, maybe you'll like this little
> > trick: use the fabulous Firefox extension "GreaseMonkey", which is a
> > generic filter allowing to run arbitrary Javascript code (possibly
> > modifying the contents) after loading webpages.

> > Using the GreaseMonkey script located at

> > http://paste.tclers.tk/887

> > you'll see that all those "Gucci ... Replica .. whatever" garbage
> > lines are replaced by whitespace in the Topic List view of Google
> > Groups. So far that's the best I can do with my 30mn of experience
> > with the tool. But surely after a bit of work we can remove the lines
> > entirely.

> > If you want to extend the filter, you'll quickly spot the regexp near
> > the top:

> > /.*(replica |gucci|wholesale|discount).*/gi

> > Enjoy !

> > -Alex

> > PS: Instructions to set it all up:
> > Once the extension is installed, Tools->GreaseMonkey->New User Script
> > In the Includes field, type or paste:
> >http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/*
> > In the namesapce field, type any string: foo
> > Then choose and open an editor, paste the above script, save and exit,
> > then OK, and Reload the current page.
> > After each cycle editing the script, Reload again.
> > The Enabled status of GreaseMonkey is sticky, so after stabilizing
> > your regexp you can forget completely about it.

> > PS2: Share your regexps !!!

> Also try this GresaeMonkey script, "Google Groups Killfile", from http://www.penney.org/google-groups-killfile-343-released.html

Wow ! This dwarfs my little attempt :-)
Many thanks for putting me on the right track.

One question about this nice script: is there documentation
somewhere ? Indeed I see it can killfile exact topics, but apparently
regexp wildcards don't work (the code explicitly escapes them, so that
a topic "A+B" is interpreted literally).
Of course I can modify the Javascript to remove the escaping, but I
wanted to make sure there was no GUI-level way of doing it...


FWIW, the following patch to the script removes the regexp-escaping,
thus allowing to generalize the kill-patterns. To use it, after
clicking the cross, when prompted to edit the kill-pattern, if you get
for example:

Topic: Wholesale Replica Gucci Hermes

edit it to

Topic:.*(Wholesale|Replica|Gucci|Hermes)

and you'll get rid of a very large class of junk in no time.

-Alex

--- orig.googlegroupskillfile.user.js 2008-04-22 18:05:18.000000000
+0200
+++ googlegroupskillfile.user.js 2008-04-22 18:06:37.000000000
+0200
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@
var data = "";
var list = new Array();
var newList = new Array();
- killspec = RegExpEscape(killspec);

// initialize variables

@@ -85,7 +84,7 @@
data = unescape(GM_getValue("GoogleKillFile", "-----"));
list = data.split(splitCh);

- list.push(RegExpEscape(killspec));
+ list.push(killspec);

alert(killspec + ' has been added to the KillFile.\nRefresh page to
see changes.');

You can also reduce the number of patterns to enter by using a case-insensitive matching; just add a "i" argument in each ".compile()" function call.

--
Kam-Hung Soh <a href="http://kamhungsoh.com/blog";>Software Salariman</a>
.

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