From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39908 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Bill White" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: thoughts on spam Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 23:16:00 -0600 Organization: Wolfram Research Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87y9m9fs6b.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> <87elo1exsd.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> <20011102160930.CC3D1BD52@squeaker.lickey.com> <87wv192jzh.fsf_-_@mclinux.com> <861yjgbygz.fsf@duchess.twilley.org> <20011102235444.E9C73BD48@squeaker.lickey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175543 30453 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:45:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:45:43 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 23840 invoked from network); 3 Nov 2001 04:10:29 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 3 Nov 2001 04:10:29 -0000 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 15zs89-0003N3-00; Fri, 02 Nov 2001 22:10:01 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 02 Nov 2001 22:09:41 -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 WAA00515 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 22:09:27 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 23831 invoked by alias); 3 Nov 2001 04:09:41 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 23826 invoked from network); 3 Nov 2001 04:09:41 -0000 Original-Received: from wri-dns0.wolfram.com (HELO wolfram.com) (140.177.205.10) by gnus.org with SMTP; 3 Nov 2001 04:09:41 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (term53.wolfram.com [140.177.117.24]) by wolfram.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id fA349aw02865 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 22:09:36 -0600 Original-Received: (from billw@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA03522; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 23:16:00 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: billw set sender to billw@wolfram.com using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: #t7>yWrgv~u6*cn3(6X"z={I/l%nH{(W:#WS-kA|s(Kcu`,=9qGWth&; @\^1U5s"'~/hhBr)ZU0<$?W:C33QJ}$t)m`&?8POaq*>5@/7xEPo!>gb;9Z[x)n%:yE#{A)6rNV_Ow ;vCO&LS=@3c=j'6@^T#Mic6zfW|Ehj0~2;jG9Df+DK'h`bTj>XsArg2CH`jW whq]J?SsvWnqa,{.C\,j]u*L:z6/2am5n5Q~6vC0fKPAMa7?Y6:eC.ThbVX In-Reply-To: <20011102235444.E9C73BD48@squeaker.lickey.com> ("Matt Armstrong"'s message of "Fri, 2 Nov 2001 16:54:44 -0700 (MST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Original-Lines: 37 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39908 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39908 On Fri Nov 02 2001 at 17:54, "Matt Armstrong" said: >> I've ROTted Matt's address out of courtesy. > > > Thanks to TMDA (http://software.libertine.org/tmda), I don't care if > my raw address (matt@lickey.com) gets out there. > Nowadays spam is pretty easy to filter - nearly everything that lands in my mail.misc is spam. Here's my low-tech method of deleting it. I filter my mail through a huge nnmail-split-methods to grab and store all but messages addressed only to me. When I open my mail.misc Summary buffer, this (setq gnus-summary-line-format "%U%R|%(%uy%)|%4L|%ub|%-30,30f| %B%s\n") ^^^ marks (with a "+") all the folks who are recorded in my bbdb. Then I get ready to lean on the # key and quickly scan the from addresses and subjects that aren't marked with a "+", process-marking them if they're spam, which is now easier to recognize. Hm - I need a way to sort the Summary buffer based on whether a "+" appears at a specific column in each line so "+" messages could float to the top. Some weekends I get over a hundred spams, and it's pretty easy to delete them quickly. The drawback is that marking bbdb-known posters is pretty slow. bw -- Bill White "No, ma'am, we're musicians."