Re: Strange nfilter/NewsProxy Behavior

"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
in message news:ikuc64pjqb6g1nl4vr513rcs4smldg1se2@xxxxxxx
On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:36:30 -0700, JosephKK <quiettechblue@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:35:20 -0700, Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:55:12 -0700, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:
nfilter/NewsProxy will crash every time while trying to retrieve
the body of this message...

Subject: Converting Excel 2007 Nested "If" Statement to Excel
2003: Overcom

Is there something there that nfilter/NewsProxy "sees" as code??

Weird.


Maybe this nfilter method is just too complicated ... ?

I simply use the filters in Thunderbird. Ok, that axes all google
groupers, can't help it. But it reduces spam to about one a day. I
can live with that.

Turned out the message was all one extremely long line of Excel
code, choking nfilter.

I white-list a number of "good-guy" googlegroup posters.

But eliminate some leftist/Euro-weenie pains-in-the-ass ;-)

I see NO spam.

...Jim Thompson

Just to make sure, i will repeat: nfilter/NewsProxy does not read
message bodies, only headers. I have read the code. (the code is
very clean and rather pretty by the way. It would make a great
piece of example code for students, small, useful, and no silly
nonsense.)


So why does nfilter consistently barf on this message?

I know nfilter doesn't look in the body, but the "References" header
allows me to kill follow-ups.

It may be that nfilter has a limit on the length of line
it can handle, that is, a buffer overflow is occurring.

Even if nfilter only "looks" at the headers, it still has
to read in and pass along the whole message to the downstream
news client.
.

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