Sunday, June 9, 2002, 9:35:16 AM, you wrote:


JA> Order of filters is very important.  They execute in the order they are
JA> displayed.  If you have the known rule enabled, and a member of the yahoo list
JA> mails to that list, the known rule will kick in *before* the yahoo list filter
JA> *if* the yahoo filter list comes under the known rule.  Try moving the yahoo
JA> list filter above the known rule.  Also look for other filters that match on
JA> address book items, and try moving them below the yahoo list filter.  One of the
JA> easiest things I've found when doing filtering is to stick high use
JA> lists/contacts right at the top, saves processing power (not that it uses much),
JA> and saves miss-filtering in a lot of cases.  For example, my TBUDL filter is the
JA> first on my list.  I wouldn't want it to match any of my other filters, so it's
JA> the first.  My second filter (IIRC, it's at work, so it's from memory) is mail
JA> from the servers I maintain, then it does some of the other lists I'm on, then
JA> spam, then some more lists (I know the order is odd here, but the second set of
JA> lists get a lot of spam), then known.  Anything that hasn't matched yet is
JA> dumped into known.

JA> Hope this gives you an idea :)

Thanks .. I will now trudge through my long list of
filters using these principles before it gets any bigger!


Lynn

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Win2kPro  Build 2195 SP2

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