A way to automatically iggy people out of the country?

[LogicalFool]

Is there a way to automatically ignore people from out of the country like it already does bots.

[GZUS]

the only way to do that would be to add sa filter for the Location in there profile BUT here is the prob it wouldnt do any good because yahoo does not allow you to chanve that anymore  so i bet you can see why it would work all that well. It would of been a good idea.




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[n.1ghty1]

unless YahELite client (or any other) actually pulled the info from the ID's profile as it joined the room and then ignored it if it was a match, there's no way

the way yahelite's spam filters are currently setup, actually using it as a location ignore would be to unrealiable.  for example, using india to match profiles from india would also get indiana united states, or any chat text containing india.

i find it easier to just google up a list of common names from countries you want to get rid of and then make a crap load of wildcards for said names.  cuts the garbage they produce down, considerably.

[GZUS]

  Even That would Be useless because people will just lie to move around the filter

[LogicalFool]

Well it is possible to identify someone's location (as in country, and possibly city) by their IP address. Is this something that can't be detected?

[Venom]

Does he mean Arabic people specifically, or others in general?

[_H_O_T_R_O_D_]

Yahoo has put into place specific measures to make it difficult if not impossible to get an IP address from a random chatter. Unless you are connected to them directly via cam or pm, and even then it's a crap shoot. Most of the time you will get the IP of a Yahoo server. YahFilter has implemented a set of filters that can screen chat text by font type which allows you to filter out arabic ,hebrew, etc. , have you tried that/is this what you where looking for? If so all you have to do is find a post here by YahOne. His signature block (usually) contains a link to the most recent release of YahFilter.

[YahOne]

re: YahFilter.

This is a Post, heh check the signiture block winky winky.

[n.1ghty1]

Here's a tip, join a /fork in /raw to a room that is for "out of country users" and observe the tardery.

Those rooms are a GOLD MINE for filters and wildcards that can be used in conventional rooms.

[spitemeister]

observe the tardery

Like the turn of phrase.