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

[Chris Tarr]

Actually, it does work that way, though if you get this in digest
format, there may not be a clutter issue.

For example, creating a rule that sends everything with [SBE] in the
subject line to the "SBE Roundtable" folder should work with pretty
much any client out there.  Keeps the roundtable messages out of my
inbox and sets them in one convenient place for reading later.

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Cowboy <curt at spam-o-matic.net> wrote:

> 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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