[SBE] Inbox Filtering --was-- Re: Discussion topics

[Cowboy]

On Friday 14 March 2008 11:46 am, Chris Tarr wrote:

>  I also recommend setting a "rule" or "filter" in your mail client.  I

>  have an "SBE Roundtable" folder in my mailbox - anything that comes

>  from the remailer goes directly into that folder where I can go and

>  look through it at my leisure.  It also keeps my inbox clutter-free.


 Of course, this doesn't work for digest mode, due the nature of a "digest."

 Spam-O-Matic started life as a classifier. A "filter" of this type, of sorts.
 Filtering incoming e-mail has always been one of the better things
 anyone can do, whether in the client itself, or on the "server" as with
 procmail and a *nix IMAP box.

 Micro$oft called it a "spam" filter, and though it was really nothing more
 than a word list classifier, and filtered spam horribly poorly, those same
 word list filters can do a really good job of sending messages into
 various "mailboxes" for lists, sub-list lists, subjects, senders, and the like.

 Until very recently, nearly all mail clients included some kind of word list
 "filter" that properly used, can do a really good job at sorting mail, if not
 "filtering" it. They work VERY well for this purpose.

 The right tool for the right job.

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