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Date:	Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:38:11 PST8
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: email filtering tips for Saturday

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I'm apparently speaking for a few minutes at the Saturday meeting on
"Email Filtering and Archiving Tips & Tricks".

Anybody have any favorite filtering or archiving tips that I should also
cover? My first-draft outline is below.

- Peter

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SCOUG Presentation

Email Filtering and Archiving Tips & Tricks

November 20, 2004

Summary
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"Here are some filtering methods and tricks to help you
organize your email and quickly check your junk mail folder
for false positives."

Bullets
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Types of filters:
Netscape 2.02 SORT.DAT
Multiple filters (i.e. Polarbar, MR/2)
Custom filter code
Ability to reorganize filters outside of the email program

Header lines:
Not well known:
X-BeenThere
Reply-To
Content-Type
Bayesian (has no classification)
Junk Spy (has classification):
X-JunkSpy-Detector
Adult Content
Buy My Product
Get Rich
Ham Or Spam?
Junk Mailers
Problematic Mailers - Common
Problematic Mailers - Uncommon
Spoofed Or Abused Addresses
Tricks Of The Trade
Unreadable Mail
Unsubscribe Me
Visit My Site
Added by some servers
The usual:
To
From
Cc
Subject

Filtering sequence:
(do some filtering before the spam filter to avoid false
positives)
Personal threads (Subject or Message-Id)
Personally addressed (both To and Cc)
Very large messages (might be viruses)
From Known Entities:
Family
Friends
Businesses (such as Domain Renewal notices)
Mail Lists (on Reply-To and X-BeenThere)
Junk Mail (including X-JunkSpy-Detector *)
(the above will leave all remaining junk mail in the Inbox)
Other:
Content-Type

Archiving methods:
By quarter, for example SCOUG-Help-2004Q3

Wish List:
Learn junk mail BY TYPE
Track personal Message-Id values
Universal filter database that creates filters for email
programs

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