[Info-vax] A cry for help

[Michael S]

On Sun, 19 Nov 2023 21:58:07 +1030
Mark Daniel <mark.daniel at wasd.vsm.com.au> wrote:

> On 19/11/2023 20:52, Fred. Zwarts wrote:
> > Op 19.nov.2023 om 03:03 schreef 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<  
> 8< snip 8<
> >> 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.
> >>  
> > 
> > For me  
> >> Injection-Info contains: google-groups.googlegroups.com  
> > works very well in Thunderbird 115.4.2.  
> 
> It DOES!  115.4.3 for mine.
> 
> Thought I'd previously tried this without success.  Go figure.
> 
> Much less of a sledgehammer.
> 

I wonder why so many people here are trying to re-invent a wheel with
very expected consequences of their wheels being square instead of
leaving filtering to professional.
What prevents people from following an advice of Retro Guy?
What he proposes works. It works well. And it's far easier than setting
up your own filter.