Re: filtering googlemail spam in Pan



mick wrote:

On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:06:13 -0800, Blinky the Shark wrote:

mick wrote:

For those who may not realise it, Pan can handle scoring rules that
don't work in the GUI. In the /home/username/News folder there is a
file named Score, which holds all the scoring rules in use. To get rid
of the googlegroups spam put this on the end of it (this is set to
expire after 1

Right. So why are you talking about googlemail in your Subject header,
since you acknowledge in your body that it's a googlegroups filter?


erm... I screwed up... DOH!
:-(

No prob. I'm probably overkeen on noticing that error because I keep
running up against people who think that the way to kill spam is by
filtering on keyword gmail in the From header. Granted, there's a lot
of overlap of GG/gmail spam, but the key is filtering GG crap. I could
not care less that the rare clued GG posters are collateral damage to a GG
filter; but there are *many, many* gmail posters that are otherwise clued
and I don't think they should be collateral damage to gmail filtering.


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Blinky
Killing all posts from Google Groups
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