Hi Greg. At 10:51 AM on Wednesday, August 14, 2002 you [GS] wrote the following about One trash can?:
jr>>>> My filters are in combination so that they jr>>>> filter out folks I know by inclusion in my AB jr>>>> [...] GS> By this do you mean "Continuing processing GS> with other filters" on the Options tab of the GS> "Sorting Office" window? [...] trying to GS> understand what you are doing. In other words GS> maybe I can do it better. Let's hope so. I'm always up for something better. To answer your question[s]: Only in 2 cases do I use 'continue filtering'. The first thing on my filter list is a filter that identifies my own outgoing msgs that come back to me, i.e. from a list server. These are filtered to a specific color so I ignore them visually, then TB! "continues processing" & they are dropped into their appropriate group folder. Following that are all my specific filters for Mail lists, personal, etc. These filters identify those msgs & drop them in their appropriate folders, i.e. TBUDL --> TB! folder, etc. Following that is my $KNOWN$ filter which identifies everything in my AB [I keep only one w a lot of groups as I find that more convenient than multiple ABs]. This is 2nd time I use "continue processing". So, for example, if I get a msg from someone who does not have a folder, it passes thru the first 2 levels & gets picked up by $KNOWN$ where it stays. $KNOWN$, Inbox, Hi Priority & personal msgs are sent to the ticker for my attention. Following that are my spam filters which identify most junk & send them to the common trash basket. If a piece of spam ends up in my Inbox I shoot that off to SPAM COP manually via a filter I constructed. Otherwise I found myself spending too much time sending off all my daily spam msgs to SPAM COP. I identify these spam filters in 2 ways: First - Those msgs that aren't addressed to me [remember all list msgs & known msgs have been filtered already]. Second - by gen'l subject matter. Ex: gambling, sex, travel, earn, etc. Then I use alternative words that apply to those subjects as they came in to me before I had all these filters. Pretty soon I have a small dictionary of typical words for each subject. All of them go to the common trash can. In options, under the Message List, I set Display time for today's msgs for t [time]. Current week as set ddd,t [day & time]. Anything beyond that is "d mmm yy, t" day, month, yr, time. In this way its very easy to identify today's spam & review it -- or at worst, yeterday & today's spam list. Last but not least, I have one other filter which just sits in the list for people I don't want to talk to which auto sends a reply that tells that I don't want to talk to them, that I haven't read their email & that it has been deleted -- all of which is true. Currently it is only one name in it. And finally there is the anti-virus plug in that hopefully filters *all* virii to the quarantine folder where I delete it, immediately followed by a compress & purge folder. GS> From what I understand of TB's filters GS> they really are all in combination to a degree GS> because precedent is set from the highest to GS> lowest on the list of filters created. Yes, this is correct & that's what I've tried to do. HTH -- Jan Rifkinson Ridgefield, CT USA TB! V1.61/W2K_SP3 ICQ 41116329 ________________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
