Filters was Re: A suggestion to keep the plug list focused

> The problem with "OT" is not only that some may not
> know what it means, but more important, one cannot
> build filters based on "OT" alone (at least I don't know
> how to do that). I don't think that sorting by subjects is
> the issue here, is it? At least I think the objective is to
> filter and delete unwanted messages, not just sort them.
>
> If a filter were built on just the two letters OT in a subject,
> then such a filter would block _every_ subject that contained
> those two letters, including many common words.
>
> Am I missing something, here?

Yes. I can build some very complicated scripts for filtering mail that would
work with OT provided a few things. I could test for case, for white space or
non-alphanumeric characters around OT, for it being the beginning or end of a
subject line, etc...
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