From: "Benjamin L. Russell" Date: 2009-06-25T12:00:11+09:00 Subject: Re: But wait! There's more!!! Just 3 easy payments of eleventy dollars! pew pew pew! On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:10:33 -0500, Robert Dober wrote: >[Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.] > >On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Benjamin L. Russell > wrote: > >> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:30:43 -0500, Ryan Davis >> wrote: >> >> >dinner break is over... back to the "grind"! >> >> Whew -- glad I checked the author before adding the sender to my spam >> filter! Can't afford to lose all of Ryan Davis's future Ruby posts. >> But that was a close one! > > >Do you mean they do *not* go to the SPAM folder????? >;) I don't trust Bayesian filtering, so I prefer not to use it. Instead, using a newsreader called Forte' Agent 5.0 (see http://www.forteinc.com/main/homepage.php) (on Windows XP), I usually sort NNTP messages from comp.lang.ruby using USENET filters, which filter and delete according to e-mail address. Therefore, I usually manually add e-mail addresses to this filter. Setting up filters is more time-consuming than using Bayesian filtering, but avoids accidentally filtering spam-like messages that aren't actually spam (such as the message that is the topic of this thread). Once an e-mail address is added, all future messages from that recipient on that newsgroup are automatically deleted without notice. Of course, I could alternatively read the mailing list ruby-talk instead of the newsgroup comp.lang.ruby, and then spam would be automatically filtered by the settings on my e-mail account, which are more sophisticated than simple Bayesian filtering, but I prefer to use a common interface for all my USENET messages, and not all newsgroups are linked to a mailing list. -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." -- Matsuo Basho^