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Help to kill file with Mozilla Thunderbird please
I wish to kill file a specific poster on u.d-i-y. I cannot find his
email address, how can I do it please? I do now particularly wish to name the individual as I am sure he will flame me. |
Help to kill file with Mozilla Thunderbird please
On 29/08/2019 11:22, Broadback wrote:
I wish to kill file a specific poster on u.d-i-y. I cannot find his email address, how can I do it please? I do now particularly wish to name the individual as I am sure he will flame me. Highlight the from address RIGHT click and select the "Filter on" option The rest should be obvious -- mailto : news {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk |
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On 29/08/2019 11:22, Broadback wrote:
I wish to kill file a specific poster on u.d-i-y. I cannot find his email address, how can I do it please? I do now particularly wish to name the individual as I am sure he will flame me. Right click on the "From" field at the top of the headers and then use "Create Filter From" It may be that they post through some anonymiser or with a forged From address in which case you may have to accept some collateral damage. -- Regards, Martin Brown |
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towill.co.uk says... I wish to kill file a specific poster on u.d-i-y. I cannot find his email address, how can I do it please? I do now particularly wish to name the individual as I am sure he will flame me. It might help if you told us which newsreader you are using. I have no trouble finding email addresses using the MicroPlanet Gravity newsreader but I don't need it to killfile someone. I just right click within the body of the text and select 'Add to Bozo Bin' (which is what Gravity calls its Killfile). Doesn't your newsreader have a similar facility? -- Terry --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com |
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On 29/08/19 11:22, Broadback wrote:
I wish to kill file a specific poster on u.d-i-y. I cannot find his email address, how can I do it please? I do now particularly wish to name the individual as I am sure he will flame me. You need to set up a message filter. I use Linux, and I can find "Message Filters" under "Tools"; I see you use Windows, so it might be under something else. Firstly, click on the message of the poster you want to killfile. Then press "Ctrl-U" (the control and U keys at the same time). This will display the source information for that post. For example, the first few lines of yours shows: Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Broadback Newsgroups: uk.d-i-y Subject: Help to kill file with Mozilla Thunderbird please The "From" field is what you are after. Open "Message Filters". It should show "Filters for uk.d-i-y. Click on "New". Give the new filter a name (maybe the poster's name). The "Apply filter when" should have "Manually run" and "Getting new mail" checked. Then change the radio button to "Match any of the following". Next go to the drop down field which shows "Subject", and change it to "From". Next check the options shown for "contains". You may want to change it to something else. Suppose your poster always uses xxxjohnxxxxx as his posting name , where xxx can be anything or any length, but "john" always appears. So all you need is "contains" and type "john" (without the quote marks!) in the field. But beware! this will kill all messages from anyone where "john" appears in their "from" info. You can change it to something else more specific (for example, "Match all of the following"). You can add another condition by clicking on the "+" at the end of the row. Maybe your poster always starts his subject with "load of rubbish", so you can use that as a "Subject" "contains" condition. You can then choose what to do if the condition(s) are met, by completing the "Perform these actions" requirements. That's all there is to it; don't forget to check that the filter has been enabled. Remember, though, that these annoying posters often change their names ("nym shifting"), so you will need to review the filter conditions regularly. -- Jeff |
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On 29/08/2019 11:22, Broadback wrote:
I wish to kill file a specific poster on u.d-i-y. I cannot find his email address, how can I do it please? There are a number of ways to make the filter, and also a number of things you can have it do. What will work best will depend on how you need to identify them, and also what kind of removal you want: http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php/...essage_Filters So from address is a good thing to kill on, but so can be the "organisation" header. The action can range from simply marking their posts as "read", to deleting them, killing the post and any sub thread, to killing the whole thread. I do now particularly wish to name the individual as I am sure he will flame me. If he is in your kill file by then, do you care? :-) Drop me a personal email if you want specific advice. -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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On 29/08/2019 11:47, Terry Casey wrote:
It might help if you told us which newsreader you are using. ROFLMAO! -- Gun Control: The law that ensures that only criminals have guns. |
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"John Rumm" wrote in message o.uk... On 29/08/2019 11:22, Broadback wrote: I wish to kill file a specific poster on u.d-i-y. I cannot find his email address, how can I do it please? There are a number of ways to make the filter, and also a number of things you can have it do. What will work best will depend on how you need to identify them, and also what kind of removal you want: http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php/...essage_Filters So from address is a good thing to kill on, but so can be the "organisation" header. The action can range from simply marking their posts as "read", to deleting them, killing the post and any sub thread, to killing the whole thread. I do now particularly wish to name the individual as I am sure he will flame me. If he is in your kill file by then, do you care? :-) Drop me a personal email if you want specific advice. some of us are sensitive and we burst into tears if we are kill filed...tee hee |
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On 29/08/2019 11:46, Martin Brown wrote:
On 29/08/2019 11:22, Broadback wrote: I wish to kill file a specific poster on u.d-i-y. I cannot find his email address, how can I do it please? I do now particularly wish to name the individual as I am sure he will flame me. Right click on the "From" field at the top of the headers and then use "Create Filter From" It may be that they post through some anonymiser or with a forged From address in which case you may have to accept some collateral damage. Blocking all anonymous remailers is a fairly easy fix for that, there can't be many legitimate uses for them on a group like this. It also has a side benefit of getting rid of a number of the more prolific religious nutters who prattle on about their karsies. -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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On 29/08/2019 11:47, Terry Casey wrote:
In article , messageboards@j- towill.co.uk says... I wish to kill file a specific poster on u.d-i-y. I cannot find his email address, how can I do it please? I do now particularly wish to name the individual as I am sure he will flame me. It might help if you told us which newsreader you are using. Was there not clue enough in the tile of the message? -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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On 29/08/2019 12:00, Jeff Layman wrote:
On 29/08/19 11:22, Broadback wrote: I wish to kill file a specific poster on u.d-i-y. I cannot find his email address, how can I do it please? I do now particularly wish to name the individual as I am sure he will flame me. You need to set up a message filter. I use Linux, and I can find "Message Filters" under "Tools";Â* I see you use Windows, so it might be under something else. in windows you double click the message and it opens in a window. then you click on the from address to select it then right click and select create filter fill in the fields as you want and puff of smoke I've gone. |
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On 29/08/2019 12:12, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 11:46:13 +0100, Martin Brown wrote: On 29/08/2019 11:22, Broadback wrote: I wish to kill file a specific poster on u.d-i-y. I cannot find his email address, how can I do it please? I do now particularly wish to name the individual as I am sure he will flame me. Right click on the "From" field at the top of the headers and then use "Create Filter From" It may be that they post through some anonymiser or with a forged From address in which case you may have to accept some collateral damage. Surely a dab of "AI", and the OP could have a trained filter that's as good as human doing the job ? How is the AI supposed to guess which posters offend the OP? Or shall I add that to the growing list of things that "AI" *can't* do ? AI can do lots of things but mind reading isn't one of them. (at least not unless you have a cranial interface) https://www.itpro.co.uk/621094/cebit...eads-your-mind Not a consumer item as yet... -- Regards, Martin Brown |
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Can it see the header? All one can do is to kill on what it says in from.
Since many of the idiots post from Google there is no other easy way, you just add the new idiot name. Brian -- ----- -- This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from... The Sofa of Brian Gaff... Blind user, so no pictures please Note this Signature is meaningless.! "Broadback" wrote in message ... I wish to kill file a specific poster on u.d-i-y. I cannot find his email address, how can I do it please? I do now particularly wish to name the individual as I am sure he will flame me. |
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Well there is a name for those, its starts with a b. its used in spam
filtering a lot by isps. Brian -- ----- -- This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from... The Sofa of Brian Gaff... Blind user, so no pictures please Note this Signature is meaningless.! "Jethro_uk" wrote in message ... On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 11:46:13 +0100, Martin Brown wrote: On 29/08/2019 11:22, Broadback wrote: I wish to kill file a specific poster on u.d-i-y. I cannot find his email address, how can I do it please? I do now particularly wish to name the individual as I am sure he will flame me. Right click on the "From" field at the top of the headers and then use "Create Filter From" It may be that they post through some anonymiser or with a forged From address in which case you may have to accept some collateral damage. Surely a dab of "AI", and the OP could have a trained filter that's as good as human doing the job ? Or shall I add that to the growing list of things that "AI" *can't* do ? |
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On 29/08/2019 20:59, Brian Gaff wrote:
Well there is a name for those, its starts with a b. its used in spam filtering a lot by isps. Bayesian filtering... its also used by the internal spam filter in thunderbird... So each time you mark or unmark an email as spam it learns what you think of as spam. -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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On 29/08/2019 20:59, Brian Gaff wrote:
Well there is a name for those, its starts with a b. its used in spam filtering a lot by isps. Brian Bayesian statistics are frequently used to kill spam based on certain heuristics and keywords present in your spam folder. It improves if you train it. Thunderbird by default only has rule based filters. You can add new header keywords but you cannot AFAIK filter on content. The other main annoyance is a lack of wildcard matching (and a default of match all of the above rules which catches me out from time to time). -- Regards, Martin Brown |
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On 29/08/2019 23:18, John Rumm wrote:
On 29/08/2019 20:59, Brian Gaff wrote: Well there is a name for those, its starts with a b. its used in spam filtering a lot by isps. Bayesian filtering... its also used by the internal spam filter in thunderbird... So each time you mark or unmark an email as spam it learns what you think of as spam. Also used in Pegasus Mail Just drop a few offending emails into the spam folder and it starts learning to automatically filter future occurrences. If you find that it is incorrectly filtering similar emails just drag them out of the spam folder and the learning process learns not to filter them. I find that it works very well. -- mailto : news {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk |
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says... On 29/08/2019 11:47, Terry Casey wrote: It might help if you told us which newsreader you are using. ROFLMAO! Oops! I obviously just clicked next post and read the message, which is displayed in nice bold type, and didn't notice the header, (which is not so clear) probably because I've broken my glasses so it's not fantastically clear! -- Terry --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com |
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"Jethro_uk" wrote in message ... On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 20:59:01 +0100, Brian Gaff wrote: Well there is a name for those, its starts with a b. its used in spam filtering a lot by isps. Brian Like all "AI" it's just clever and fast pattern matching. Real AI has to a lot more than just that. |
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