Re: Filtering the Spam on this ng

* Casperius wrote in alt.os.linux.suse:

could you help me to set up filter on thunderbird?
I don't know what to put in filter data.
thunderbird 2.0.0.14 on opensuse 10.3

Unfortunately TB is not capable of filtering on the MID field which is
really what you need to filter on to get rid of the spam.

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David
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