It appears that on 25/4/04 Richard Hart spake thus: >You wrote: > >>I now don't see the point >>of having the spam folder > >The Spam folder is both a safety feature and a convenience. > >It is a safety feature because it enables the rest of us to train our >spam applications. During training, you can validate messages in the Spam >folder as positive or false spam -- black list or white list. The Spam >application learns from what you do. Without it, non-spam messages would >end up in the Trash. > >What's wrong with that? Well, for the rest of us, we don't want to weed >through pages of mail that we deliberately deleted, intermingled with all >that mail that was placed in the trash by a Spam filter. You evidently >get so few email messages that it doesn't matter to you, and that's fine. > >It's a convenience because providing the user with a pre-named folder for >this holding area is much kinder than instructing the user, "Make your >own folder. Call it whatever you want." > >Richard Hart > >
If you look carefully I said I "now" don't see the point of the folder, I understand why it is there but I have trained SpamSeive over the past eight months or so and I am quite happy for the spam to go straight to trash. I just want to tidy up my folder list by deleting a folder I don't use. -- Pat O'Halloran http://www.danu.co.uk He would have to learn the hard way. The problem with the hard way was you only got one lesson. - Terry Pratchett
