[Info-vax] A cry for help

[Mark Daniel]

On 24/10/2023 01:49, Mark Daniel wrote:
> On 24/10/2023 00:05, bill wrote:
>> On 10/23/2023 8:14 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> On 2023-10-23, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>>> On 10/23/2023 6:32 AM, Henry Crun wrote:
>>>>> If anyone has a remedy for the slew oc 'Black Magic' and 'Love 
>>>>> potions"
>>>>> spam, please let me know.
>>>>> Otherwise I am going to have to -- unwillingly -- lose contact with 
>>>>> VMS
>>>>> after something like three decades
>>>>
> 8< snip 8<
>> The newest version of Thunderbird doesn't appear to have filtering
>> capabilities any more (or at least not in an easily discovered
>> method) so I may have to go back to Knews for reading USENET.
> 
> You can open a message, right-click (or double tap if using a pad) on 
> the "From" in the header panel, select "Create Filter From..." from the 
> popup menu, uncheck "[ ]Manually Run" and hit [OK] button.
> 
> You get a "Message Filters" popup listing all the current filters, hit 
> the [Run Now] button at the bottom.  Voila!  Gone and also gone 
> automatically from thereon.
> 
> Bit tedious and a little whack-a-mole but seems to work.  Compound 
> filters can be built if so inclined but the basic few clicks seem to 
> work well enough.  I've only needed to (re)discover this mechanism over 
> the last week or two.
> 
> (Now I just have to [Delete] and "Confirm [OK]" the 'From is: 
> bill.gunshannon at gmail.com' filter from the "Message Filters" popup :-)
> 
> 8< snip 8<
>> bill

Well of course this got unmanageable and very tedious very quickly,
making nuke-a-mole the only option.  For Thunderbird...

Created a filter "match all of the following" with "From contains 
@gmail.com" + "From isn't in my address book" then perform "Delete message".

There is a significant risk of nuking a friendly mole but desperate 
times...  Ensure you have added the likes of gunshannon at gmail and 
turner.gmail, etc. to insulate as many inoffensive gmail posters as 
necessary.  I also only [x]Manually Run after casting my eye over the 
spam (if not too great a quantity).

PS. Thunderbird says it supports "Customize"d message headers such as 
Injection-Info and User-Agent which would have been *very* useful with 
"contains gmail.com" parameters but I couldn't get it to work (and the 
few posts a search engine could muster suggested that was the long-time 
consensus).  Pity.

/A pox on the houses of all spammers. Make that two poxes./

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