The way I'd set up an E-Mail program would be to start with a list of E-Mail addresses that I trust. Each address would be associated with a folder, so as mail arrived from a known address, it would go into the associated folder. Mail that wasn't recognized would go into a Junk folder, perhaps for examination by some spam tool. If the message is from someone I do know, I rescue their message, add them to my address book and store their message in the associated folder.

That's what my approach would be, because the ratio of spam messages to messages from people I've never before written to is very high. Perhaps other people have had different experiences.

--t. alex

"Nyahhh (munch, munch) What's up, Doc?" --Bugs Bunny

In reply to Re: Email filtering by talexb
in thread Email filtering by John M. Dlugosz

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