Tips on writing regular expressions for searching the post list
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by Buzzy » Fri May 07, 2004 8:01 pm
I am trying to get rid of some spammer posts, and it seems the only way to do it is to do some work on the posters.dat file.
XBX <
[email protected]>
WANTED <
[email protected]>
ROYAL <
[email protected]>
and variations of the name are posting the same files, but with the filenames changed or modified in such a way as to not get picked up as duplicates.
I've tried:
XBX <
[email protected]>
WANTED <
[email protected]>
ROYAL <
[email protected]>
but the regex filering appears to have no effect. Any ideas?
Thanks!
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by AlphaTrion[A3] » Sat May 08, 2004 2:40 am
I could be wrong, but I don't think that the posters.dat uses regular expressions. I think that RE is only used for post filtering (Filters.xml).
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by Quade » Sat May 08, 2004 9:35 am
No regex in the posters.dat. It's OLD. I'll look into adding it for the next rev.
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by Buzzy » Sat May 08, 2004 9:39 am
Quade wrote:No regex in the posters.dat. It's OLD. I'll look into adding it for the next rev.
Excellent! I'll be looking for it (even beta test, if need be)!
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by pher » Sat Jan 01, 2005 8:07 am
I'm also waiting for this possibility. By now it's absolutely impossible to lockout this kind of posters. Thanks in advance
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by itimpi » Sat Jan 01, 2005 8:56 am
I am reasonably certain that the current beta (4.33B6) has this implemented. It would be worth trying it to check.
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