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Date:	Fri, 19 Nov 2004 06:15:50 PST8
From:	"Mark Abramowitz" <marka@relaypoint.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: email filtering tips for Saturday

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In <419D604F.729@peterskye.com>, on 11/19/04
at 03:57 AM, Peter Skye said:

>These are good categories, thanks. But I don't know what
>they are. Can you enlighten me? Or, you can show up at
>the Saturday meeting and embarrass the heck out of me by
>bringing up things I know nothing about.

Thinking... naw, I won't embarass you.

These are based onthings that I use in MR/2 ICE:

>> - pre-send filters

Rather than a filter being triggered upon receiving a message, you can act
upon it prior to sending it. For example, you may want a copy of all
replies that you send to this list to be placed in your "Momentous things
I've said on the SCOUG list" mail folder. Or, you could automatically run
it through an de-encryption program, so that we could understand what
you're saying.

>> - on-demand vs. automatic filtering ( I have an on-demand
>> filter that I use to send spam to the CA Att'y Gen'l.
>> office, then delete the messsage)

I can enable filters to run automatically, or I can have then run only
when I specify. In this example, after my latest E-mail check, I can
highlight the spam, select my Cal-AG filter, and it will automatically
send all of them to the AG's office, and then delete them.

>> - pre-retrieve filters

Used to filter messages before you retrieve them from your mail server.

>> - Filters and REXX

A filter that connects to a REXX script, automatically running the REXX
program when the filter is triggered.

For example, I have a Stephen Levine filter, which sounds a clanging bell,
heard throughout half the house sometimes, whenever I recieve an E-mail
from Stephen. It simply runs the play.cmd REXX script that comes with
eCS:

C:\MMOS2\PLAY.CMD file=C:\mmos2\sounds\BELLS.WAV

(Now Stephen knows how I respond so quickly when he posts the next set of
instructions for getting my 5220 working!)

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