[SpamCop-Geeks] Re: X-news alteration for header scoring

[Anonymous]

"Tim P" <dwvbo91q4001 at sneakemail.com> wrote in message 
news:Xns9616F05B828EBdwvbo91q4001sneakema at 216.154.195.61...
> Is there some way to add to the list of header keywords that X-News
> filters on?  It would be very useful right about now; another
> newsgroup is getting dippyposts (mailbomb ala newsposts).
>
> Currently, there are only five keywords within the headers that X-
> News can scorefile and apply filters to.  It doesn't score others,
> like "NNTP-Posting-Host:", etc.
>
> If not, is there another newsreader that could handle header
> processing?

I wonder if a person could get the source code for Hamster Playground 
(http://www.elbiah.de/hamster/pg/index.htm), and port it to *nix and 
compile it? That'd let you do RegEx filtering on anything in a usenet 
post (anything in the headers, anything in the body).