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My significant other is the list admin for a number of
Rootsweb lists. She monitors all who request a subscription
to her lists but rarely monitors the actual messages. Any
regular member of a list is subject to monitoring if they
post something that is inappropriate.
The inappropriate message that hit this and many other
Rootsweb lists had just the right words to get by the filters.
This is the first one she has seen in six years to get
through. That's d*** good filtering.
BUT filtering can get to the point that it starts kicking
out the good stuff. A message was kicked for the phrase
Suma Cum Laude.
You can set up folders and filters to take care of the
majority of your GOOD and some of the spam reducing the time
you spend deleting manually.
I'll use the COFFEY list as an example. First you create a
new folder and call it, what else, Coffey.
Then set up a filter. If the subject line contains COFFEY
Then send it to the Coffey folder. All your list mail will
go to that folder EXCEPT replies that do not have the key
word in the subject line. An alterante filter would be;
If from coffey-l(a)rootsweb.com then send msg to Coffey folder.
You can filter family, friends all your mailing lists into
folders. A quick check of your inbox for strays and then
delete them en masse.
A lot of spam comes from hotmail and that can be filtered
right to the trash can with hotmail as the keyword.
Here's a trick. If you have a friend with a hotmail address
put their filter higher on the filter list than the generic
hotmail filter and use something else for the keyword.
Once you have folders and filters set up your inbox will be
much easier to handle.
Cal Boyd, FSA Scot, Genealogist
House of Boyd Society, Inc.
Hi all! I'm new to this list & glad to find it. My work w/the Coffee(Coffey)
line begins w/Louisa Caroline Coffee, b. 24 Dec 1859, Morgan Co, KY, dau of
Elijah Coffee and Elizabeth Bowen. My work continues back to Ambrose Coffee,
b. abt 1755 in Ireland. Love to share w/anyone anytime! -Naomi