Thursday, February 6, 2003, 8:55:23 AM, you wrote: > Thanks Peter! This seems to do the trick.
Regular expressions are tricky to write and revealing in their complexity as to who's good at them and who's not and why that is. There's a 'strong' community of posters here that take a keen interest in the power of regex and all it can do but for spam why have to download all that (sometimes hundreds of messages, some with attachments) before one's well crafted regex filters can do their job? Why not be able to use TB as a 'viewer' of the remote server and zap the spam there, before getting the mail you want? I know however, if you are hosting your own domain and the spam was coming to 'your' server then of course what's already in your house so to speak regex filters would be the way to deal with it. I don't think, however this is the way it is for the majority of TB users. If I had the best regex for all spam possibilities, I would still be waiting a long time to download this crap (as it were) before the regex(s) filters could do their work. This is just more aggravation to an already slow Internet connection. I use a small program to display the headers which by it's methods, highlight the spam so it can be deleted with one click; This, for even hundreds of unwanted messages, can be accomplished in under a minute with a typical modem connection. After that I bring up TB hit F2 and download the stuff I want. This is the way I deal with spam. C.K. - TB 1.63/Beta5 on win98se ________________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBTECH" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
