Need unusual procmail filter

Normally, filters are inserted into Procmail to filter out spam. I want to
do the reverse in a way.

My ISP's filter is too harsh. Some non-spam, although not stopped, comes
with a SPAM label in the subject line, which can be embarrassing when I
reply.

Is there a formula for deleting the label?

TIA,

Doug.
--
For there was never yet philosopher
That could endure the toothache patiently.
- Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing).

On comp.os.linux.networking, in <ndqiq3-(E-Mail Removed)>, "Doug Laidlaw" wrote:
> Message-ID: <ndqiq3-(E-Mail Removed)>
> From: Doug Laidlaw <(E-Mail Removed)>
> Subject: Need unusual procmail filter
> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking
> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 13:59:18 +1000
> User-Agent: KNode/0.9.2
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit
> X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 211.27.100.240
> Organization: iPrimus Customer - reports relating to abuse should be sent to (E-Mail Removed)
> X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1
> Lines: 17
> NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.134.67.67
> X-Trace: 1154923505 un-2park-reader-01.sydney.pipenetworks.com.au 17548 203.134.67.67:1751
> X-Complaints-To: Abuse, including message IDs to (E-Mail Removed)
> Path: text.usenetserver.com!atl-c01.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!atl-c05.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!postnew s.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.gig anews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.waia.asn.au!202.7 2.130.18.MISMATCH!quokka.wn.com.au!token.pipenetwo rks.com!218.100.2.59.MISMATCH!not-for-mail
> Xref: usenetserver.com comp.os.linux.networking:456623
> X-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 00:06:01 EDT (text.usenetserver.com)

<article not downloaded:
http://slrn.sourceforge.net/docs/README.offline>

Those are some screwed up headers.

Two "X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host:" IPs?!

I'd like to help, but you really are coming across as a troll.
And I don't help trolls.

Especially trolls who want to know about mail filters, which
generally means they are planning to graduate to spamming.

Pretty good with procmail, though.

Note: I won't be downloading any articles on this thread.

Alan

--
See my headers.

Who is Alan Connor?

Alan Connor is the inventor and implementor of the final ultimate
solution to the spam problem, and everyone who dares claim otherwise
is a spammer.
That is basically the gist of the messages Alan sometimes spews into NANAE.

Alan Connor is appearently also active on many other newsgroups, including comp.mail.misc.

http://www.pearlgates.net/nanae/kooks/ac/

Also in the headers for Alan to read.

On comp.os.linux.networking, in <Spew-from-(E-Mail Removed)>, "alan connor FAQ" wrote:

> Path: text.usenetserver.com!atl-c01.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!news2.e uro.net!213.132.189.2.MISMATCH!multikabel.net!feed 20.multikabel.net!news.germany.com!usenet.ath.cx!u senet2.ath.cx!output11.sto!spool07.far!post02.far! not-for-mail
> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking
> Subject: Re: Re: Need unusual procmail filter
> From: alan connor FAQ <(E-Mail Removed)>

Actually, people don't ever ask the following questions, to my
knowledge.

Look how casually this Usenet criminal commits the worst offense of all:
Forging someone else's alias.

> Message-ID: <Spew-from-(E-Mail Removed)>
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=ISO-8859-1
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> References: <(E-Mail Removed)>
> Date: 07 Aug 2006 06:01:38 GMT
> X-No-Archive: yes


You'd think he'd want such an important Public Service Bulletin
to be archived.

ROTFL!

> Followup-To: alt.asshole.alan-connor

That group exists only on the servers of Fat Mike Horwath,
otherwise known as King Troll: octanews and readfreenews.

Only trolls use his servers.

He doesn't like me :-)

> X-Ac1: Who is Alan Connor?

Me.

> X-Ac2: Alan Connor is the inventor and implementor of the final
ultimate
> X-Ac3: solution to the spam problem, and everyone who dares cla
im otherwise
> X-Ac4: is a spammer.

Nope. Challenge-Response Systems (which is what he is referring
to) were in use long before I ever touched a computer.

Here's a brief introduction to them:

http://home.earthlink.net/~alanconnor/elrav1/cr.html

They are hated by spammers and trolls because they can't beat
them.

> X-Ac5: That is basically the gist of the messages Alan sometime
s spews into NANAE.

No it isn't.

> X-Ac6: Alan Connor is appearently also active on many other new
sgroups, including comp.mail.misc.

Well. That's where mail filters are most often discussed.

And where you obviously got the information that you then
distorted.

> X-Ac7: http://www.pearlgates.net/nanae/kooks/ac/

That website was put up by a spammer/troll who hates
Challenge-Response Systems with a blinding purple passion.

Whom I kept beating in debates on comp.mail.misc, even though he
cheated and used dozens of sockpuppets.

He hates C-R Systems because he can't beat them.

I've never even looked at the site.

The opinions of Internet vermin are of no interest to me, and
like this feeb, they have threat ratings below zero.

The site has been up for years and hasn't slowed me down a bit.

> Lines: 12
> Xref: usenetserver.com comp.os.linux.networking:456626
> X-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 02:01:16 EDT (text.usenetserver.com)

<article not downloaded:
http://slrn.sourceforge.net/docs/README.offline>

Thanks for the opportunity to tell these people about the best
troll and spam filters in existence.

They'll learn on my introductory page about the
Challenge-Response System offered by Earthlink as a part of its
standard spam fighting package, among other things.

hehe

Note: The troll is posting the article I am responding to with an
auto-poster that replies to any post I make on the Usenet with
that post.

He is using an application/utility that only a Usenet spammer
would have.

Told you trolls and spammers hate Challenge-Response Systems.

And they sure aren't very bright!

Alan

--
See my headers.

Who is Alan Connor?

Alan Connor is the inventor and implementor of the final ultimate
solution to the spam problem, and everyone who dares claim otherwise
is a spammer.
That is basically the gist of the messages Alan sometimes spews into NANAE.

Alan Connor is appearently also active on many other newsgroups, including comp.mail.misc.

http://www.pearlgates.net/nanae/kooks/ac/

Also in the headers for Alan to read.

On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 06:30:43 +0000, Alan Connor wrote:

> Subject: [OT] Challenge-Response Systems (was: Need unusual procmail filter)
> From: Alan Connor <(E-Mail Removed)>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.windows-xp,comp.os.linux.advocacy
> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 06:30:43 GMT
>
> On comp.os.linux.networking, in
> <Spew-from-(E-Mail Removed)>, "alan connor FAQ"
> wrote:
>
>> Path:
>> text.usenetserver.com!atl-c01.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!news2.e uro.net!213.132.189.2.MISMATCH!multikabel.net!feed 20.multikabel.net!news.germany.com!usenet.ath.cx!u senet2.ath.cx!output11.sto!spool07.far!post02.far! not-for-mail
>> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking
>> Subject: Re: Re: Need unusual procmail filter From: alan connor FAQ
>> <(E-Mail Removed)>
>
> Actually, people don't ever ask the following questions, to my knowledge.
>
> Look how casually this Usenet criminal commits the worst offense of all:
> Forging someone else's alias.

Usenet criminal? What the fuck is wrong with you? You gotta screw loose or
something?

--
COOSN-266-06-25794

Pierre Salinger Memorial Hook, Line & Sinker, June 2004

Meat Plow wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 06:30:43 +0000, Alan Connor wrote:
>
>> Subject: [OT] Challenge-Response Systems (was: Need unusual
>> procmail filter) From: Alan Connor <(E-Mail Removed)>
>> Newsgroups:
>> comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.windows-xp,comp.os.linux.advocacy
>> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 06:30:43 GMT
>>
>> On comp.os.linux.networking, in
>> <Spew-from-(E-Mail Removed)>, "alan connor
>> FAQ"
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Path:
>>> text.usenetserver.com!atl-c01.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!news2.e uro.net!213.132.189.2.MISMATCH!multikabel.net!feed 20.multikabel.net!news.germany.com!usenet.ath.cx!u senet2.ath.cx!output11.sto!spool07.far!post02.far! not-for-mail
>>> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking
>>> Subject: Re: Re: Need unusual procmail filter From: alan connor FAQ
>>> <(E-Mail Removed)>
>>
>> Actually, people don't ever ask the following questions, to my
>> knowledge.
>>
>> Look how casually this Usenet criminal commits the worst offense of
>> all:
>> Forging someone else's alias.
>
> Usenet criminal? What the fuck is wrong with you? You gotta screw
> loose or something?

More than one, I'm afraid.

--
Rhonda Lea Kirk

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign,
that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift

On comp.os.linux.networking, in <(E-Mail Removed)>, "Rhonda Lea Kirk" wrote:

<article not downloaded:
http://slrn.sourceforge.net/docs/README.offline>

Trolls and spammers _really_ hate Challenge-Response Systems,
because they can't beat them.

They all think that they have a right to send mail to your
private mailboxes that have false return addresses on them.

They are wrong.

On the Usenet, trolls think that they have a right to send
articles to your newsreader while pretending to be more than one
person.

They too are wrong.

Note: I won't be downloading any articles on this thread.

If someone wants to discuss this subject with me, they can see
the contact page on my website. Mail from gmail, and other
anonymous servers, are not accepted.

Trolls needn't bother. Anonymous mails are silently dumped.

http://home.earthlink.net/~alanconnor/elrav1/cr.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~alanconnor/contact.html

Alan

--
See my headers.

Alan Connor wrote:

> Note: I won't be downloading any articles on this thread.

Yes, you will, you pathetic fool. You can't help yourself.

The Alan Connor FGA:

http://www.pearlgates.net/nanae/kooks/ac/fga.shtml

--
Rhonda Lea Kirk

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign,
that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift

Doug Laidlaw wrote:
> Normally, filters are inserted into Procmail to filter out spam. I want to
> do the reverse in a way.
>
> My ISP's filter is too harsh. Some non-spam, although not stopped, comes
> with a SPAM label in the subject line, which can be embarrassing when I
> reply.
>
> Is there a formula for deleting the label?
>

You can pipe messages into a script or command with procmail, like:

:0
* ^Subject:.*SPAM
| sed s/SPAM//

That's probably not exactly it but you get the idea. See 'man
procmailex' for some examples.

'man formail' might also be useful. Good luck.