on Wed, 16 Jan
2008 15:49:19 -0800
> Your recent discussion of filtering made me checking and reconsidering
> my filters ;-)
> There are too many and I never counted them.
I only have 18 filters and most are for individuals on mailing lists that are
rude or always OT.
> I always filtered the UN-wanted ones !!
That is what I do. Everything that is flagged as spam goes into a spam folder
to be checked later. That leaves some spam in the inbox but most is filtered
into the spam folder.
> Your discussion changed my focus !!!
>
> Now I split into 2 groups:
> Aceppted and Deleting
>
> All mails reaching my inbox are UN-checked / -filtered and
> I will filter them either accepting or deleting !!
> Accepted ones go into "Accepted Inbox" and
> the rest to Nirwana ;-)
I never delete anything automatically. That is too easy to lose good email.
> One thing i noticed:
> Sometimes arrive a bunch of mails with different senders but
> all have the same contents !!!
> They all are pointing to the same junky URL and so I filter
> Delete if Body contains that specific URL !!
>
> This avoids the arrival of future stuff from same source/s !
The bayesian filter catches spamming domain names.
> One more important aspect if one owns an own domain:
> Having an own domain with some various accounts ...
> ... plus some aliases resp forwarders multiplies the filter task to
> each of these accounts and aliases resp. forwarders ;-((
>
> So filtering should be done on domain level i.e. with Bogofilter or
> SPAMassassin PLUS individual filters for the whole domain if possible !?
> This would eliminate multiple filters from individual accounts !!
Filtering at the domain email server is a good idea except for the problem with
deleting good email. Marking it a spam or moving it to a spam folder is the
way I would do it.
> Just for myself: I have less than a handful of accounts (fam, pers, itc)
> but
> about a dozen of aliases resp forwarders !
>
> Not ONLY:
> Since my wife wanted her own PC, I have to maintain her filterings
> too ;-|
I only have a bayesian filter set up on my wife's computer. I let her mark the
emails that are marked incorrectly.
> It was not meant being retired and starting a new career as filter
> fellow ;-O
I agree with that.
--
Robert Blair
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