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Date:	Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:49:19 -0800
From:	SYNass i-lists <i-lists@synass.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Filters

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Hi SCOUGians

> On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 13:21 -0800, Tom Brown wrote:
> That is the number of Filters. I don't have time right now to count the folders !

Your recent discussion of filtering made me checking and reconsidering
my filters ;-)
There are too many and I never counted them.

I always filtered the UN-wanted ones !!
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 ;-)

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 !

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 !!

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 ;-|

It was not meant being retired and starting a new career as filter
fellow ;-O

So, I better stop my longwinded 2 cents here and hope to get to hear
and
learn more from you how to manage this eS Pee A eM plague !!!
TIA ;-)

Cheers, svobi

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