On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Josef Lowder <
joe@actionline.com> wrote:
> On 1/9/09, Charles Jones <
charles.jones@ciscolearning.org> wrote:
>> Josef Lowder wrote:
>> > I'm about fed up with gmail. One of the most annoying things is that
>> > it is (apparently) impossible to create filters that will actually
>> > delete (rather than just move garbage emails to trash). This is
>> > ridiculous. I'm still getting 100+ garbage spams plus 100+ emails in
>> > trash every day and I have to go through all these to make sure that
>> > there is nothing in there that should not be; and almost every day I
>> > find one or two items in both spam and in trash that should not be
>> > there. Valid items in "trash" are my error/responsibility because of
>> > my aggressive filtering efforts. This problem could be minimized if
>> > not entirely resolved if I only had the ability to actually create a
>> > "delete forever" filter for some of the most offensive garbage.
>> >
>>
>> If your current filters are failing and moving legit emails to trash,
>> wouldn't the "delete forever" filter be a bad idea? :-)
>
> No, because, as I explained above, I would l only use a "delete forever"
> filter on the most offensive subject word-strings. For other subject
> word-strings
> where I may be most aggressive in filtering, I would only send those
> items to trash.
> And thus, I would have a much smaller number of "trashed" items to have to
> scan through.
>
> For example, for a while, I was getting hundreds of garbage spam that had
> the word "from" in the subject line, so I filtered all of those to
> trash so I didn't
> have to deal with them in my inbox. But then, when time permitted, I would
> scan through the trash and usually found 1 or 2 legitimate email messages
> (among the hundreds of non-legitimate messages with the word "from" in
> the subject line).
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