Re: killfiling and Tim's bad day

[Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>]

At 04:51 PM 6/21/99 -0400, mike.murray@utoronto.ca wrote:
>Anon,
>	Thanks... on both counts.  Now, let me explain my confusion... I
>have mail filters set up for both this list, and all the rest of the stuff
>that comes in to my inbox.  Was unfamiliar with the term "killfile"... was
>under the (mistaken) impression that it was a server-side (i.e. on the
>cypherpunks LISTSERV) type of app, which I could manipulate...

"Killfile" is a somewhat older term, from back when many of us still used
Usenet :-).  
Some net subcultures use the term "bozofilter" instead.
In either case, it's tough to read Cypherpunks without some
automated method for trashing messages that have a high probability
of having low value.

I use some filters in Eudora, but the interface for creating them
is a bit too clumsy to use them a lot - I tend to sort my Inbox by
Subject, look for bunches of articles with the same title,
and then decide whether to read them or trash them 
(especially useful for a different mailing list I'm on.)
				Thanks! 
					Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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