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Date:	Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:49:15 -0800
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Filters

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Ray davison wrote:
>
> There has been some talk lately about mail filters.
> ... Peter has made a career of it.
>
> A more realistic approach is to filter out of the inbox the stuff you do
> want.

This is what I do, and I agree it's a "better method". To rephrase your
statement, you simply create the necessary "white list" filters to
extract what you do want.

I quickly check the messages left behind by sorting them on Sender and
again on Subject, and I quickly review these two sorts and manually move
anything that I want to keep (like all the French Bikini messages). The
remainder gets trashed.

My old old Netscape 2.02 filters by using a text control file which is
real easy to update, add comments to, and rearrange as necessary. I
_hate_ the "new" filter files which are an internal database, like
PolarBar. I can't edit them externally (I asked on the PolarBar list a
while back and the filter bits and pieces are stored in a variety of
different places), and maintaining the filters with the limited tool
supplied with PolarBar is a major time-waster. _Luckily_, PolarBar
allows you to write a custom filter routine (in Java) but the PolarBar
web site appears frozen in time, so I'm not going to switch to PB
because it apparently has no future.

That leaves Thunderbird. I still can't find the documentation on
Thunderbird's filters: hopefully it allows custom filtering software as
PolarBar does.

- Peter

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