> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Erik Reuter > Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 8:43 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: br!n: [LINK] What Science Fiction Author Are You? > > > To anyone using Outlook Express filters, maybe you can help > Amanda? NicK, I think you use the evil email program?
I'm using Outlook 2000... for no darn good reason except that a couple of companies where I worked required it. I was a Eudora fan until then. Still have my wife on it. I'm not sure if Outlook Express does filters the same way or not. In any event, filtering is one of the worst things about Outlook. The "wizard" is dumb, the UI for building a filter is confusing, there's no language behind it, so you can't script filters (unless you dive into VB, I guess) and worst of all (and really, really awful) is the fact that all your filters break if you relocate your Outlook files. And then you have to fix *all* of your filters (re-associating them with their folders) before even one of them will work, because you can't close the wizard dialogs until all the filters are working. I have dozens of filters, so this can be a huge pain. Oh, and almost as bad as that last one, there's no way to find a filter easily. You have to scroll through a list of short, obscure names. And I always have leftover filters hanging around, doing nothing but slowing down mail. I've written an elaborate filtering system for mailing lists for my work; I really should adapt it to my own mail! I'm running Brin-L through that system, but not much else that I personally read. It's filtering a couple of thousand messages a day without even breathing hard. And it's in Python! What were we talking about? Oh, yes, I might be able to help with Outlook Express... Nick _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
