Re: [OT] How to get rid of maniacs like Kamau Kambon? Filtersettings?

Erwin Moller wrote:

Stevo schreef:
Erwin Moller wrote:
I am curious how others in here handle this.
We received a lot of nonsense from a guy naming himself Kamau Kambon.
Don't you hate it too?

I just added him to my garbage filter in thunderbird (Tools->Message Filters). Any message that arrives from him and anyone else I added in the past that posts such stuff just gets marked read and marked ignored.

It'd be nice to know that the poster is being pursued for writing that kind of stuff. If he were to spout that kind of hyper-racism on TV or Radio there'd be an outrage. On here though, it probably goes unpunished I imagine.

Hi Stevo,

Yes, that works for his current name.
But these kind of people change them all the time. :-(

And I know about Thunderbirds messagefilters, but I am NOT happy with the standard Thunderbird filtering.
It missing the ability to filter out on headers I need.
(like Message-ID:*googlegroups*)
According to bugzilla people are working on that since 2000 or something. ;-)
Seems nobody cares enough to implement it in Thunderbird since simple helpers as NewsProxy exist.

I am told it will be in the next alpha build of Thunderbird 3.0.



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