[Info-vax] A cry for help

[Mark Daniel]

On 20/11/2023 01:00, Michael S wrote:
> 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.

I guess it is a matter of; having a pretty elementary setup for reading 
just c.o.v. which worked without any attention for years until just 
recently...  Folk are trying to massage what they have already in place 
and now this advice from Fred seems to address the immediate issue.

The wheels are (now) roughly circular.  Spoke-spanner back in the toolkit.

Kudos to Usenet feeds that have this under control.  Mine does not.

Prepared to give it a go but doesn't inspire a great deal of confidence 
downloading from a source that has a server cert expired 35 days ago 
(https://osdn.dl.osdn.net/sylpheed/).

Might stay with my tack-hammer a little longer but will keep these in mind.

PS. My mail provider uses Process Software PMAS which works well-enough. 
  Occasionally I need to go hunting for an expected email and have 
noticed the majority of spam to my account originates from gmail.  While 
claiming 99.9% of spam does not reach gmail recipients the same effort 
should be applied to gmail spam origination.  There I go again; pissing 
in the wind.

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other than the relative cuteness of this or that puppy-dog, needs 
seriously to examine their critical thinking.