From: Tony Williams 

Geo. wrote:
> "Tony Williams"  wrote in message
> news:3dfd48d4$1{at}w3.nls.net...
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>
>>Like I said, I give it a quick visual scan to see if any legit mail got
>>tagged incorrectly and the rest is deleted unread or reported to
>>SpamCop. For all I know some mail is blocked outright and only the
>>borderline cases make it through the block and get tagged.
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>
> You go thru it manually. Thank you.

Semi-automatically might be a better way to describe it. I have lots of
filters to categorise mail and send it to different folders, so I don't see
spam mixed up with the rest. I'm not saying that my ISP shouldn't block
spam, just that I like having a second string to my bow.

> Ok so what is the difference between doing that and not filtering anything
> at all but instead sorting your inbox by from address? An extra minute per
> day of your time?

See above. I find it saves more than a minute and lets me retain control.
Incidentally, the new mail client in OS X 10.2 has a filter which is doing
quite a good job at sending spam to a "junk" folder for me. If it
makes a mistake I tell it that it either tagged something it shouldn't have
or missed a spam which it should be moving to junk. It seems to be learning
quite quickly.

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Tony

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