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Date:	Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:29:11 -0800
From:	Ray davison <raydav94@gmail.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Filters

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There has been some talk lately about mail filters. Jordan might think
about it someday and Peter has made a career of it.

The talk always is about having a filter get rid of stuff you don't
want. But a filter can only act on definitive instructions. And just
how do you tell a filter, get rid of the stuff I don't want. It is a
moving target. The pill pushers are now putting their message in a
graphic image. Is there a filter that can read graphics content?

A more realistic approach is to filter out of the inbox the stuff you do
want. The lists we subscribe to and the people we communicate with is
more finite than the junk. The result is that the inbox is mostly junk
and the filtered files are almost all clean. So "junk time" is rather
short. The Mozilla junk filter flags a lot and it can be deleted with
one button, and the rest of the junk, since there is very little in the
inbox that is not junk, can easily be reviewed, flagged, and deleted.

Ray

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