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Date:	Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:44:15 -0800
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Filters

In <962264.34463.qm@web81412.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, on 01/15/08
at 10:07 PM, J R FOX said:

Hi,

>Trying to pre-flag (or guess) what ALL the "clean"
>ones will be is going to be a sizable job and
>something of a pain

Actually, it's pretty much a trivial exercise if your mail client's
filtering logic is up to the task. This means some sort of predicate
logic that supports cutting off the fiter chain at an arbitrary point.

First allow anything that is in your address book. Then allow anything
that is in the lookaside whitelist file. These are mostly special domains
for which I want to accept any userid address.

Old habits die hard, so I leave the good stuff in the Inbox and move the
bad stuff to a Review folder. This means I have filters that detect spam
as well as the whitelist filters.

The good thing about spam is that is repetitive, so with a subject sort I
spend about a minute a day cleaning it out the review folder and adding
the occasional new address to the white list.

My current setup includes about 20 filters, but they have been pretty much
static for the last couple of years.

Steven

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