Post your filters!

[adept1]

LAST EDITED ON 04-11-02 AT 00:27 AM (EST) Here are the ones I'm using right now:

DENY

Matches subjects that begin and end with at least two of certain special characters (example: ***Free llama pron***).
[!~*@#$^][!~*@#$^].*[!~*@#$^][!~*@#$^]$

ACCEPT

Matches multi-part ace, rar, par, hjsplit. (example: a01, a02, c01, c02, p01, p02, r01, r02, s01, s02, 001, 002, etc.)
\.[acprs-z0-9][a0-9][r0-9]

Matches various filetypes.
\.[avi]|[csv]|[jpg]|[mov]|[mp3]|[mpg]|[nfo]|[par]|[rev]|[sfv]|[wmv]|[zip]

[dexter]

LAST EDITED ON 04-11-02 AT 09:38 AM (EST) Nice, thanks!

How about this for the llama stuff:

^([!~*@#$^][!~*@#$^])+.*([!~*@#$^][!~*@#$^])+$

I think it is actually more effective if you remove the beginning and ending markers (or at least the end one) because usually there is a filename at the end of the subject line in the case of spam posts.

Also, for the extension matches, you should use parens instead of square brackets. The square brackets match one of the characters of the set, not the entire string defined inside the brackets. So it would be:

\.(avi)|(csv)|(jpg)|(mov)|(mp3)|(mpg)|(nfo)|(par)|(rev)|(sfv)|(wmv)|(zip)

[adept1]

LAST EDITED ON 04-11-02 AT 08:54 PM (EST) Thanks for the advice! I'll try your modifications and let you know how it goes.

Update: Hmm... Newsbinpro won't allow my to add this for some reason. Somebody else please try it.


\.(avi)|(csv)|(jpg)|(mov)|(mp3)|(mpg)|(nfo)|(par)|(rev)|(sfv)|(wmv)|(zip)

I even tried manually editing the filters file, but when NBP loads it seems to ignore this particular filter.

[boogeeman]

(-.*\.((RAR)|(PAR)|(NFO)|(SFV)|([R-Z][0-9][0-9])|([0-9][0-9][0-9])))|\([0]+/[0-9]+\)

finds rar sets including most support files and the 0/n file

[PhileMonger]

its too long. cut it into 2 filters