Re: bolide elimination by eudora

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At 11:51 AM 4/23/96, Jeremy Young wrote:
>Norm MacLeod asked:

>>With respect to the question of filtering messages based on key words, I
>>understand there are e-mail programs that perform this function (perhaps
>>someone can post some info. about these). Anyone wishing to have access to
>>this feature should look into acquiring the necessary software. With the
>>upcoming release of "intelligent agents" this sort of thing will be a
>>standard feature of electronic communications in the near future.

>EudoraPro
>EudoraPro has this function - a set of filters can be defined to redirect
>messages into any mailbox (including trash) based on key words in the
>title, sender or whatever. It works fine. EudoraPro also includes a spell
>checker, interchangeable signatures, uuencoding and a couple of other
>features but is otherwise identical to regular Eudora. It costs about
>50dollars - send an email to eudora-sales@qualcomm.com for information. I
>would recommend it to anyone who is using eudora heavily, would like a bit
>of extra functionality, and has funds for suchthings...

        This doesn't solve the problem either. Filtering with Eudora means
that you have to receive the message first (i.e., pay for receiving it) and
only later you can put it (in this case automatically) in the trash.

        For those who do not recall my previous posting to Paleonet, I am
talking here about paying the E-mail service itself, not Paleonet.

>Mail Digest
>Anyone who is feeling seriously afflicted by the bolide message shower
>should consider changing to digest mode - this means you get the whole days
>paleonet messages as a single large message. To go for this send the
>message;
>
>Set Paleonet mail digest
>
>to our helpful listprocessor;
>
>listproc@ucmp1.Berkeley.EDU

        This helps somehow by getting all the messages TOGETHER. However,
it is not a cheap solution since you are going to receive (and therefore
pay for) ALL the messages anyway, and not only a selection you make of
them.

>Jeremy Young


        Ali T. Haidar



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