On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:35:11AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> I use a filter to put what's likely to be spam in a folder and then
> prune out what's real mail and delete the rest.  The problem is that
> every message needs to be opened and then deleted, which doesn't work
> because so much spam takes forever to open due to url lookups & etc.,

You allow your mail program to lookup urls in spam messages? Why?

> or highlighted with <shift> <enter> and then deleted.  That saves
> opening the individual mails, but still requires a click<italic>
> per</italic> message.  I get lots (lots!) of spam. 

Perhaps because you give positive feedbacks to the spammers?

> Often I'll need to delete 100 messages in a row.  Is there a way to
> highlight a message and then select all subsequent messages up to a
> specific message?  That way you could eyeball a list and delete
> message 1 through 65 with less than a handful of clicks, rather than
> the 65+ I'm going through.
> 
> If not, what would be the best way to add a menu item that lets you
> select message 1 - 65, e.g., for deletion.

Just use some mail program that does not need mouse clicks at all.
E.g. in mutt I'd just press 'd' to delete a message, wait 250 ms for
auto-repeat to set in and then delete message at a rate of 30 per
second.

In any case I'd think this kind of question is a bit off-topic on this
list.

Andre'

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