Re: Lowering spam Subjects ending like: [ ]+[0-9]+$

["Johan Kullstam" <kullstam@ne.mediaone.net>]

Chris Shenton <cshenton@OutBounderInc.com> writes:

> Seems there has been some spam software out there that sends mail with
> a subject then appends a bunch of spaces and then some presumably
> unique tracking number to the end, like:
> 
>         Don't miss this $700 Give Away                         15817
> 
> Is there a way to get Gnus to recognize these (preferably in all
> groups) and lower their score so I can skip over them? I've been doing
> it manually for each one I see with gnus-summary-lower-score (L S) and
> it's getting tiresome with the increase in spam.
> 
> My emacs regexp skills aren't stellar but I should be able to figure it out
> if I know where to begin. Looking for a pattern that ends with (say)
> 16 or more spaces then 4-6 digits, then the end of line.

i use this

((read-only t)
 ("subject"
  ;; auto spams
  ("  [0-9][0-9][0-9]+$" -10 nil r)))

this does 3 or more digits.  for me it seems to get rid of those
annoyance spammages.

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