From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/44188 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jack Twilley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: bbdb and nnmail-split-fancy Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 12:46:59 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <86lmc05zcs.fsf@duchess.twilley.org> References: <86zo0h5l88.fsf@duchess.twilley.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018126213 23677 127.0.0.1 (6 Apr 2002 20:50:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 20:50:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16tx8W-00069m-00 for ; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 22:50:12 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16tx5w-000509-00; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 14:47:32 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 06 Apr 2002 14:47:40 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA25771 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 14:47:24 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 610 invoked by alias); 6 Apr 2002 20:47:10 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 605 invoked from network); 6 Apr 2002 20:47:09 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by gnus.org with SMTP; 6 Apr 2002 20:47:09 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16txJD-0007NF-00 for ; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 23:01:15 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 52 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl092-188-219.sfo2.dsl.speakeasy.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1018126875 26019 66.92.188.219 (6 Apr 2002 21:01:15 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Apr 2002 21:01:15 GMT X-Attribution: Jack X-PGP-Key: 0x007F7B38 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5315 7434 6095 DF36 995B 3407 18F1 527C 007F 7B38 X-Face: .NHAX*9Wpk.L>*/dOY%Tx85BIb;aN`:H*I7y}qDK{(&Q(zjfnli]\}|xh+mpp22}~9u.T[[ zaK{BFgnXg'rBY+GiwLccR(O/iXq"_Fhrx0+%!1N}?D(mT{T$n_q}f`!f\(,@dR~*x&{_Zn^Qm)6rV ]E,6z3JLm6k<9>^9kg:#TU-S'a3{@c,rcT7YF`M*cCg_S0e1=C?!^kg-Wy]f+Xjpe#gB]>#xi= sa4'F#mX[QH^5}1B$0.s"6Y0R["ypG0mIe;8R6H_W]*_c:1|0Z^FgjUA?dCr`b[TX>>>> "Michael" =3D=3D Michael Cook writes: Jack> There are more sophisticated ways to get nnmail-split-fancy to Jack> work with bbdb. Jack> I have records for people that have gnus-private values and Jack> records for mailing lists that have gnus-public values. It's Jack> bbdb-gnus.el in bbdb. Very straightforward stuff. Michael> the downside is that you need to manage those gnus-private Michael> and gnus-public values in the bbdb records. which is a Michael> little more work, at least. Adding one line to one record that is from someone I know isn't too much work for me. Especially when my bbdb gets the occasional bit of litter in it as I add darn near every address I see. Michael> the split-if-in-bbdb approach doesn't require you to edit any Michael> of your bbdb records. and it makes for a nice spam detection Michael> heuristic. if someone sends me mail, even if they address it Michael> directly to me (like most spammers seem to do these days), Michael> it'll still get split into my "other" folder instead of into Michael> my "inbox" folder. i need to scan my other folder's Michael> *summary* buffer occasionally to see if any non-spam ended up Michael> there. but if that happens, i just select the non-spam Michael> message and type `:' to add the sender to my bbdb. kinda Michael> nice, i think. This heuristic only works if you assume that no spammers are in your bbdb. This is not necessarily true if all senders and recipients are added to bbdb by default.=20=20 [...] Jack. (to each their own) =2D --=20 Jack Twilley jmt at twilley dot org http colon slash slash www dot twilley dot org slash tilde jmt slash =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8r17KGPFSfAB/ezgRAsBYAKDdXNiRwfUO5VDki5wfpCyB+RbJKgCfeYq7 5JT+io/1UK3QtVkVqrcGHMM=3D =3DwFI8 =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----