In article >,
blake murphy > wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 10:43:06 -0500, Dave W wrote:
>
> > In article >,
> > blake murphy > wrote:
> >
<snip
> >
> > Picked up on this thread late, but do you by any chance have gmail
> > filtered? I can't see Om (and others, Wayne for one) cause I killed
> > gmail in an attempt to avoid spammers selling "fake" name brand purses,
> > watches, and widgets. Some of theses folks had munged their addy at one
> > time, but now they're gone again. :-(
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dave W.
>
> i'm not familiar with newswatcher, but most filters have a way you can
> 'pass' favored names from a filter on gmail or other sources, by putting
> them at the top and assigning them an action that doesn't 'kill' them, and
> when that condition is satisfied, filtering stops and the rest of the
> filters have no effect. when my list of names to be passed got to fifty or
> so, i gave up that idea.
>
> that having been said, gmail is not so spam-infested as it used to be.
> maybe they're policing their users a little bit, unlikely as that may seem.
> kill-filing all of gmail seems to be a little too much of a shotgun
> approach to me. after a while, filtering on subject keywords (or
> individuals you find objectionable) will take care of most of the problems.
>
> your mileage, etc.
>
> your pal,
> blake

Well, I'm going to "un-kill-filter" gmail. When I checked in on RFC this
morning there were 700 articles, 326 of which were killed! Pretty
extreme I'd say! (Not all the killed files were gmail files, I'm sure.)

Anyway, thanks for the clue re. gmail's improved behavior. I'll put away
the shotgun and see what happens. I checked newswatcher's on line
documentation and saw a comment which implied that you can 'pass'
favored names through a kill filter. But it may take time for me to find
out how to do it and right now I'm hard pressed to read the manual for
my new programmable thermostat so it can turn on the heat when the
weather changes. (God, I hate reading manuals, documentation, and such!)

Regards,
Dave W.