Posted by charles cashion on 12/25/07 03:46

My apologies,
I was wrong,
if you spell "MI5 Persecution" correctly, it works.
I thought it did not work, but after UNSUBSCRIBING
from alt.html and then cleaning out all references
to alt.html and then RE-subscribing to alt.html,
the filter works.

I set ONE filter and it was on news.verizon.net and
that covered all subdirectories.
Charles

John Hosking wrote:
> charles cashion wrote:
>> John wrote:
>>> Please. I've created a bunch of rules and the spammer just won't go
>>> away!
>>>
>> Thunderbird > Tools > Message Filters does not work.
>
> Fairly surprising. I just tested here and it works for me. I used:
>
> (Match any of the following)
> Subject contains MI5
> Action: Delete Message
>
>> It does not work for alt.html (this group).
>> It does not work for news.verizon.net (my provider).
>> "Mark Read" does not work.
>> "Delete" does not work.
>> I suspect it is because I cannot control what exists
>> on "news.verizon.net".
>
> What would that have to do with it? None of us can control our NSPs
> (unless we're running our own news server). The Thunderbird filter works
> by just not grabbing the posts that match the conditions you set up.
> What filter rules did you try?
>
>

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