Re: to not read spam emails on debian MLs

From: Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson_at_cox.net)
Date: 07/17/05

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Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 17:36:51 -0500

    On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 18:22 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
    > As a user, I cannot obviously dictate how the spam filters are setup in
    > Debian related mailing lists. At the same time, I am not proficient
    > enough to create spam filters of my own. The following method is what I
    > used to have a spam-free emails from Debian related MLs.
    >
    > 1) Create a separate gmail account for subscribing to email lists.
    > 2) Use this email account to subscribe to mailing lists.
    > 3) gmail filters almost all the spam (99% efficient for me). But gmail
    > reader does not have a tree view to read emails.
    > 4) Set up a pop account on your local machine and forward your gmail's
    > emails to this.
    > 5) Read the spam free emails in your favorite email client.
    >
    > I guess this is not the best solution there is. But it is probably the
    > one with least effort from the user.

    Setting up a spam filter in Tbird isn't that hard, is it? 

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