help with filters
 

a long time ago, very strict filters weren't necessary
but now inventors got smarter and for almost every query you enter, there is some bogus file containing just the words you typed

so i've made a more stricter filter, but somehow, this he isn't working right
i've created the filter with the filter HOWTO from the gtk-gnutella help at sourceforge.org

in the first attached figure, you see my new, strict "movies_strict" filter (and the extra filter "ignore")

in the second attached figure, you see the result of the filter

from the filter, we can see he filtered out only 2 hits, containing the word "****"

yet, there are still hits (see figure 2) containing the word "sex"
also notice, that almost all of the files have a file size < 5MB

how can this be possible?

the result of the movies_strict filter

The problem are those filters that have "RETURN" as target. That means all following filters are ignored. For a "movie" filter you probably don't need them anyway. Just drop all files below 100 MiB. Spam is seldomly larger than 2 MiB. Usually you need only filters with "DON'T DISPLAY" as target
which also keeps them much simpler.

indeed, i moved the first lines to the bottom and that did the trick!

thanks a lot!

You can also use regexp filters. I use this one to filter my videos searches :
X If filename match the regexp pattern "\.mpeg$|\.avi$|\.asf$" DON'T DISPLAY

So I only have files with expensions .mpeg, .avi, or .asf in my results.
That's quicker than adding a lot of filter rules...

(sorry for my english, i'm french...)