Time to unsubscribe...

[Tim May]

On Tuesday, December 25, 2001, at 02:14 PM, Dr. Evil wrote:

>>> Basically half the posts to this list are incoherent, idiotic rambling
>>> from mattd at useoz.com and ravage at ...  The few bits of wonderfully
>>> interesting news on this list aren't quite wonderful enough to
>>> motivate me to figure out how to use mail filters.  If someone knows
>>> of a filtered version of this list, please let me know.
>>
>> Since you seem to be ignorant msoft user, use made-for-idiots yahoo
>> throwaway and set this in the "block addresses" (under options):
>
> Just for the record, I'm not an ignorant MS user.  I'm an ignorant
> user of something else, far more subtle.
>
> [list snipped]
>
> Choate and Mattd seem to be responsible for more than half the
> traffic, and basically none of the value on this list.  I think it
> would be almost tolerable without them on it.  Ok, time to figure out
> the mysteries of filtering.
>

I use two kinds of filtering:

1. Mail filters. For nearly 10 years, I used Eudora and Eudora Pro. Now 
I am using OS X Mail, but may switch to Entourage (packaged with 
Microsoft Office). All of these mail filters are incredibly easy to 
learn to use. (Being that OS X is largely FreeBSD, I'm sure I could use 
regular expression filtering, but so far, no need.)

2. Eric Murray's lne.com node, which filters out any source not 
subscribed to the list, basically.

Choate and mattd get filtered into the trash by my own filters, though I 
can see their posts in the garbage if I get bored. (Also, mattd doesn't 
consistently filter into the trash properly...no idea why. If I manually 
run the filters, it works.)

Filtering mail is a necessity these days.


--Tim May
"Dogs can't conceive of a group of cats without an alpha cat." --David 
Honig, on the Cypherpunks list, 2001-11