Spam filters

Karen, I've tried setting up filters on Thunderbird and it's not working. Thunderbird has done a great job with deleting spam from my email, but not my groups. Any Ideas Juno

Melinda (?) wrote: It is possible to killfile in Google groups, but AFAIK only using Firefox

--Karen D.

Love Thunderbird. I like it even better than the Free Agent I tried at first. Of course, I'm a big Firefox fan, too, with the NoScript and AdBlockPlus add-ons. Super surfing!!!

I am not Karen, nor have I played her on television, but if you click on the highlighted sender (following "From" in the heading), then choose the last item in the drop-down menu: "Create Filter from Message" you get a box to make the filter. If everything is as you want, just click the bottom "OK" and close. I then go to Tools: Message Filters to make sure that the filter "took."

Joanne, Perhaps my problem is that I haven't done it on the highlighted message heading. I have lots of names in the filter I just do see anything being filter out. Next time someone pops up I'll try that way. I usually click on a bunch of messages from losers just to get them out of way. It's okay that your not Karen because you are Joanne , no actually you are my favorite Pogo Thanks, Juno

Hope it works for you. I find that sometimes the filter doesn't "take" on my first try and lets a few messages slip through. I like that I can either remove the messages or just mark them "read." On another newsgroup, there are a couple of people I don't care to read unless an interesting discussion ensues. Then I might want to go back to see what started it.

Well, this seems obvious, but it's the only thing I can think of. Have you updated your Thunderbird program? There is now a newer version, and that could be your problem. If you have updated, scratch this message.

Feel free to impersonate me any time you like, Joanne-you said it well!

Did that as soon as the newer version came out. If I ever get hold of my computer person(DS) I'll try to get more info from him than ignore it. Juno

Thanks, Joanne! These two add-ons will solve a long-running problem I have.

Thank you. Thank you very much. But the proof is in the pudding, as we say. It remains to be seen if Juno is successful or not. Meanwhile, I am cussing nymshifters who evade my filters, most likely because their old addresses were shut down. That MI5 gets around.

They're great, and you can't beat the price. They don't hog your hard drive, either, like M$'s bloatware.

Boy, that's for sure! And that's what I figured, as well--that they got shut down and had to come up with new addies. They're persistent, ain't they?

Unfortunately, I still need IE for a couple of websites that I just can't get to with Firefox. Otherwise I'd get rid of it altogether. And I still need Office, but much less often than when I was working full-time.

I saw the coolest little handheld computer at Microcenter the other day. It is about $400, and only has open source software on it, including the Mozilla programs. If I were still traveling I'd be tempted to get it, just to use for email and other light usage. I've never heard of the brand before, maybe Asus? But it was tiny, while still having just about everything you'd need for most daily computing.

I hate sites that are so poorly constructed that they require IE. A web designer who does that is incompetent. I have to question the owners of the site, too, for tolerating that kind of shoddy work.

We will soon all be like Dick Tracy. Not just a wrist "radio" - which I consider cell phones now, but a teensy computer as well. The problem is the keyboard.

Agreed, about the shoddy work. The ones I have the most trouble with are Amex and a Visa website, oddly enough.

The keyboard on the little open source system was small, but not as small as those teensy tiny ones that you see on Blackberry-type devices. I have small hands, and it was just on the verge of being a comfortable size. It was small enough to put in a large handbag, which was cool.

Karen Maslowski wrote in news:84d0e$47793358$422a87ca$ snipped-for-privacy@FUSE.NET:

you need IE Tab for Firefox. yet another handy free download from the Firefox add-ons site. it lets you open a tab in virtual IE, without bothering to open the IE browser at all:) i have Open Office instead of M$ Office. works fine for the little i use it (almost never) lee

That's very cool!!! I'm going to get that. I hate to open IE since it seems to spread out so much. Plus it lets so much through that I worry about getting infections.

Pogonip wrote in news:477986cb$ snipped-for-privacy@news.bnb-lp.com:

it's nice because you can have just the tab you need for a particular website in IE, & it doesn't affect any other tabs. anything that helps avoid opening IE is a wonderful thing. lee