Hello Allie & other TB! list members following this thread, On Thursday, September 19, 2002 Allie wrote and said in response to Marco:
M>> One of the really good features of The Bat is in my opinion the M>> selective download. Especially when using a dial-up connection, M>> you don't have to spend telephone costs on downloading spam. ACM> You spend a lot of telephone cost initially downloading the ACM> headers of all messages for the selective download filters to ACM> process the message headers and then downloading the entire ACM> messages again. This would be profitable in the end only if ACM> you're receiving a large amount of spam in proportion to ACM> legitimate mail. Sorry, Allie; but saying "This would be profitable in the end only if" is not the only scenario. I use it to avoid viruses as well as a trigger for following up on important mail. I don't want to be checking my high number of mailbox directories and don't use the ticker for the same reason: The fact is, most of my mail is never read. M>> As I upgraded to ADSL now, I'd like to see what exactly is not M>> downloaded, so I want to change my selective download filter into M>> a "normal" filter that puts the stuff in a certain folder. Including viruses? M>> Is there a way to use the signal file, containing all the known M>> malicious mailers/domains, in a regular filter? Aside from the selective download Spam and virus txt file, my signal file is upgraded continuously and stored in my brain. ACM> No. The regular filters cannot work with a string file. You'll have ACM> to enter each string from the file as an alternative string in the ACM> spam filter. You could also enter a few strings, copy and paste the ACM> filter in your editor, look at the formatting of the few strings you ACM> entered, add the rest of the strings in a similar format and then ACM> copy and paste the filter back into TB!'s filter list. Sounds tedious. -- Douglas ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.00 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
