Ryan Lee wrote:
> David Huynh wrote:
>   
>> On behalf of the Haystack group and Simile team, I'm happy to announce 
>> the availability of "Seek", an extension to Mozilla Thunderbird (v2) 
>> that implements faceted browsing features for browsing through email 
>> more efficiently:
>>
>>     http://simile.mit.edu/seek/
>>     
>
> One of the first things I tasked Seek to do was help sort through my
> archive of mail that spam filtering has judged to be spam.  While spam
> has become less of an interest for me, due mainly to SpamAssassin's
> success, SA isn't 100% correct, and some days I still have that nagging
> sense that I might have lost real mail to the spam filter.
>
> Using Seek on my archive proved the sense right but also helped temper
> it.  I pulled out eight legitimate pieces of mail from a set of 10,000 
> that came in the past two months.  On my own casual, daily look 
> throughs, I had only managed to rescue about 20.
>
> I've written five of my own Thunderbird plugins to help make it more 
> useful to me, and Seek immediately joined them all as a valuable part of 
> managing my mail.
>   
Nice! I actually didn't anticipate that use case.

So, how exactly do you use Seek to recover the legitimate messages? 
Looking through "from domain"?

David

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