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Jan 22 08:25:07 <Tofe> Morning
Jan 22 09:17:37 <Herrie|Laptop> Morning!
Jan 22 09:35:02 <Tofe> Herrie: bshah was asking me, do you think it's possible to post-process the logs (like here http://logs.nslu2-linux.org/livelogs/halium/halium.20180122.txt ) to remove the spam entries ?
Jan 22 09:35:35 <Tofe> To my knowledge, there is currently no procedure to do that, but maybe you know more
Jan 22 09:50:38 <Herrie|Laptop> Tofe: Novaldex has access to the server, something could be done manually
Jan 22 09:53:11 <Tofe> Ok I see; however for a one-time change it could work, but the spam issues are a bit recurrent
Jan 22 10:10:36 <Herrie|Laptop> I guess we should ping novaldex
Jan 22 10:42:58 <Herrie|Laptop> novaldex|away: ping
Jan 22 15:39:00 <Herrie|Laptop> novaldex: You around?
Jan 22 15:43:17 <novaldex> Herrie|Laptop: pong, sorry for the delay
Jan 22 15:43:40 <novaldex> just been reading up on yesterday's meeting! something got in the way of me attending..
Jan 22 15:43:59 <Herrie|Laptop> novaldex: Same here unfortunately :(
Jan 22 15:44:48 <novaldex> such things do happen unfortunately! unless yours was a good thing? (mine wasn't..)
Jan 22 15:51:35 <Herrie|Laptop> novaldex: Entertaining 2 little ones LOL
Jan 22 15:51:46 <novaldex> much more enjoyable than mine!
Jan 22 15:51:57 <novaldex> we digress..
Jan 22 15:56:19 <Tofe> novaldex: the original question was if you think it's possible to post-process the logs (like here http://logs.nslu2-linux.org/livelogs/halium/halium.20180122.txt ) to remove the spam entries
Jan 22 15:56:46 <Tofe> the spam issues are a bit recurrent on #halium, and it also pollutes the logs
Jan 22 16:01:05 <novaldex> thanks Tofe
Jan 22 16:01:43 <novaldex> yes we can do it manually, but it could be involved & access wise there's only the likes of myself that can get to the files
Jan 22 16:01:52 <novaldex> so i'm not certain about automation around that (at this time)
Jan 22 16:02:22 <novaldex> it'd be better if we can identify patterns for filtering
Jan 22 16:02:51 <novaldex> does irc not offer some kind of block for spam users? or is that not feasbile?
Jan 22 16:02:55 <novaldex> *feasible
Jan 22 16:03:14 <bshah> novaldex: this spammer is umm well trained I should say
Jan 22 16:03:23 <bshah> :/
Jan 22 16:03:50 <bshah> as you can see we already have like 5 staffers in #halium but still he manages to spam us
Jan 22 16:04:02 <novaldex> hey bshah
Jan 22 16:04:21 <bshah> Hello novaldex
Jan 22 16:05:26 <novaldex> i've not been in the halium room for a bit, so i've not witnessed first hand
Jan 22 16:05:56 <bshah> novaldex: I am not sure if is possible, but maybe if channel ops can "turn-off" logging and turn it later on it would also be useful
Jan 22 16:05:59 <novaldex> let me go have a look at the logs & see
Jan 22 16:06:41 <Tofe> or we could tell the log bot to ignore a specific alias
Jan 22 16:07:15 <novaldex> not sure how intelligent our logger is configuration wise
Jan 22 16:07:51 <Tofe> novaldex: I was thinking more interactively
Jan 22 16:08:28 <Tofe> though, actually, that might be a bit too late, if the log is already written
Jan 22 16:09:39 <novaldex> it's not instant, but it is pretty quick
Jan 22 16:09:55 <novaldex> if it's always the same alias, that gives us possibilities
Jan 22 16:10:11 <bshah> no, it's not same alias.. :/
Jan 22 16:10:27 <Tofe> neither same ip
Jan 22 16:10:30 <novaldex> picking it up at the log phase would seem to be a good place, lets them 'vent', but without revealing it's not recorded
Jan 22 16:11:16 <novaldex> in theory I could see something happening during log rotation that'd remove such entries
Jan 22 16:11:28 <novaldex> but training something to do it without a pattern, now that's where it gets tricky
Jan 22 16:11:38 <novaldex> which is why I was wondering about doing it in the channel itself
Jan 22 16:16:23 <Tofe> Currently it's just survey+ban
Jan 22 16:24:17 <novaldex> how frequent are such posts? daily?
Jan 22 16:25:29 <bshah> novaldex: in general it's not much, basically it's single spammer known freenode wide, but if attack goes on it is daily
Jan 22 16:26:19 <bshah> I *think* spammer is bored now but tbh not sure
Jan 22 16:37:10 <novaldex> shall consult a higher authority.. (2nd opinion!)
Jan 22 16:40:14 <Herrie|Laptop> novaldex: While you're consulting, seems the synergybot in #webos doesn't like it's job and quits on each message
Jan 22 16:40:17 <Herrie|Laptop> Not sure what's up with that
Jan 22 16:40:32 <novaldex> haha, yes it's been noticed there before as well, shall put a reminder in about it
Jan 22 16:40:35 <Herrie|Laptop> While you're at it with higher authority you might raise that as well ;)
Jan 22 16:40:46 <novaldex> think i've disabled some joining messages in that channel so it doesn't annoy
Jan 22 16:41:41 <novaldex> every day you learn something new around here!
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