Hey Havivah,
Wednesday, September 20, 2000, 4:34:02 PM, you wrote:
Havivah> Hi jbelk,
Havivah> I like the image of little robots marching to your orders, to and from
Havivah> the mailbox, presenting you with little packets of letters, tearing up
Havivah> junk mail... :)
Havivah> but your analogy isn't quite right. Let's imagine that there are as
Havivah> many robots as there are filters. The way you describe it, it seems
Havivah> that you picture an army of robots going to the mailbox and looking at
Havivah> mail *simultaneously*. This just isn't the case.
Ah rats!! That was a good vision too.
Havivah> You set your filters up in order: the first filter listed under the
Havivah> Incoming Mail folder in the Sorting Office is Robot #1, the second
Havivah> filter listed is Robot #2, and so on. Robot #1 examines all the mail
Havivah> and takes what belongs to him and leaves the rest. Then, in turn, all
Havivah> the other robots examine the remaining mail and remove what belongs to
Havivah> them. Like an upside down pyramid: each robot examines a progressively
Havivah> smaller number of emails. The last robot only sees whatever hasn't
Havivah> been picked up by other robots. That's why your spam filter should be
Havivah> at the bottom of the Incoming Mail filter list. And yes, whatever
Havivah> isn't grabbed by any of the robots goes to your Inbox.
It *is* clearer now. I just had to change the polarity of my head to
think of it in those terms
Havivah> That is the *basic* way it works (as I understand it). If you *want*
Havivah> mail that belongs to Robot #1 *also* to be examined by the following
Havivah> robots, you can configure The Bat! to do this by selecting the
Havivah> "Continue processing with other filters" option in the Sorting Office.
Havivah> But for your purposes, as you've described them, I suspect you will
Havivah> want to ignore this option, and leave it unchecked.
Havivah> Hope this helps...
Havivah> Havivah
Yes it did.
I appreciate it but I've decided I can't deal with the text editor
that comes with TB!. I guess it's back to Eudora or running three Agents at once.
Thanks everybody. I'll monitor here for a while longer. The
traffic makes it great for testing filters...and the KNOWLEDGE, of
course!! :-)
jack
--
later,
jbelk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
--------------------------------------------------------------
View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com
To send a message to the list moderation team double click here:
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message:
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--------------------------------------------------------------
You are subscribed as : [email protected]
