[Rhodes22-list] List Mechanics: How to Use Filters

[Mary Lou Troy]

I've done that. While my mood and my blood pressure improved, the 
tone of the list did not. I believe this has gone way beyond the 
ability of filters to contain.

Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall, MD


At 03:45 PM 12/31/2008, you wrote:
>No one needs to see any email from this list they don't want to see.
>Everyone's email program has a filtering mechanism that will take
>selected email out of the InBox and deposit it into the Trash folder, or
>any other designated folder.
>
>I use Thunderbird, (formerly Eudora) which is available for Windows;
>Mac; and Linux, so that is the filtering system I will explain.  I am
>sure most other programs use a very similar filtering technique.
>
>Starting from your Inbox, Select Tools/Message Filters.  (Don't start
>from composing an email or anywhere else--you'll get a different set of
>options when you click on "Tools".)
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>This will open a "Message Filters" box.  Click "New" to create a new
>Message Filter.
>
>This will open a box that is fairly self explanatory, but I will walk
>you through one.
>
>Let's say you don't ever want to hear anything I've got to say on this
>list ever again.
>
>First name the filter so you can find it back if you ever need to do so.
>
>Let's name this filter "I Hate Effros".
>
>Next, Click the button that says "Match Any of the Following".
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>Then press the drop down buttons to define parameters.
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>In this case, select "From" in the far left button.
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>"Contains" in the middle button.
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>Type in "Effros" (no quotation marks) in the right button.
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>or
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>"Subject" "Contains" "Politics:" -- you won't get any politics.
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>etc.
>
>Now go to the box below and define the action you want taken every time
>the parameters are met as set above:
>
>"Move Message To"  "Trash"
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>"Delete Message"
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>etc.
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>That's really all there is to it.  If you only want sailing related
>material, filter out Politics: and Jokes:
>
>If you only want to read what certain people have to say you can either
>filter them in, or filter everyone else out.
>
>Everyone has all the tools at hand to be able to make this list work for
>them the way they want it to work without restricting the activities of
>anyone else or leaving the list.  Nobody has to kick anyone else off the
>list to enforce their own censorship code.
>
>Bill Effros
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