Dave W wrote:

> 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!)

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