Hi Julian. At 1:48 PM on Saturday, August 31, 2002 you [JBL] wrote the following about 'How do you set up account filters?':
JBL> Databug's situation is a little different, JBL> because all of the messages are going to be JBL> downloaded anyway so the downloading of the JBL> headers is an additional overhead, but that JBL> increase in overall download time is JBL> justified by the circumstances. However -- and not to win an argument -- in Databug's case [assuming that the scenario I laid out actually works], I would say that the overhead wouldn't be justified. Perhaps acceptable to the user because it doesn't make much of a practical difference, but that's another story. JBL> I use selective downloads in two specific JBL> situations - as a spam filter on an account JBL> that gets a lot of junk mail, and when I am JBL> travelling and downloading mail using my JBL> mobile phone, when I don't want to download a JBL> 500K email message unless I really need to! I, too, use selective download; I'm set up with 3 email addresses. I use the main one for most everything so that's where all my list msgs, tech support *and* spam comes in. Only when I can't dispose of a virus, have I thrown in a selective download kill filter but, backtracking on my own suggestion to Databug, that kill filter would have to wade thru the heaviest mail flow before d/l the leftovers & that's not really efficient. Hmmmm, I'll have to change that on principal & see what, if anything, happens now that spam rarely lands in my inbox & all infections are caught by NOD32. -- 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
