Kill-file instructions

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Tony Hoskins

Kill-file instructions

Legg inn av Tony Hoskins » 17 aug 2006 19:00:02

Wonder if someone would kindly let me know just how to initiate a
kill-file. Haven't a clue, but it seems a sad necessity.
Much appreciated.

Tony Hoskins


Anthony Hoskins
History, Genealogy and Archives Librarian
History and Genealogy Library
Sonoma County Library
3rd and E Streets
Santa Rosa, California 95404

707/545-0831, ext. 562

Tim Powys-Lybbe

Re: Kill-file instructions

Legg inn av Tim Powys-Lybbe » 17 aug 2006 19:00:03

In message of 17 Aug, hoskins@sonoma.lib.ca.us ("Tony Hoskins") wrote:

Wonder if someone would kindly let me know just how to initiate a
kill-file. Haven't a clue, but it seems a sad necessity.

Gosh, not kill-filed anyone or any topic yet!

Anyhow the first question is what software you are using. Your headers
say you participate through MEDIEVAL-L, which means you talk to us
through e-mail, and that you are using Novell GroupWise Internet Agent
6.0.1. I have never heard of the latter. It may be that Novell
Internet Agent does not do kill-files. I wonder if it is software
supplied by your Library? If so, you may have to ask the system support
people, the Help Desk even. for an answer.

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Tim Powys-Lybbe                                          tim@powys.org
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Ye Old One

Re: Kill-file instructions

Legg inn av Ye Old One » 17 aug 2006 21:29:24

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:57:33 +0000 (UTC), hoskins@sonoma.lib.ca.us
("Tony Hoskins") enriched this group when s/he wrote:

Wonder if someone would kindly let me know just how to initiate a
kill-file. Haven't a clue, but it seems a sad necessity.
Much appreciated.

Tony Hoskins

What software are you using?

--
Bob.

Diana Gale Matthiesen

RE: Kill-file instructions

Legg inn av Diana Gale Matthiesen » 17 aug 2006 23:30:03

Most email software will allow you to establish "rules" (check your software's
"Tools" menu or search its "Help" menu). If you want to kill mail from a
particular person, create a "rule" that takes email from their address and
automatically deletes it. GENMEDIEVAL appears to maintain the address of the
original sender, so it should work (some mailing list software converts all
sender addresses into the list address, making it harder to create a solution).

My email host also gives me a solution at the server level, so anything from a
specified address (or entire domain) gets jettisoned at the server, without my
ever seeing it -- I LOVE that feature!

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Hoskins [mailto:hoskins@sonoma.lib.ca.us]
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 11:54 AM
To: GEN-MEDIEVAL-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: Kill-file instructions

Wonder if someone would kindly let me know just how to initiate a
kill-file. Haven't a clue, but it seems a sad necessity.
Much appreciated.

Tony Hoskins

Nathaniel Taylor

Re: Kill-file instructions

Legg inn av Nathaniel Taylor » 18 aug 2006 00:44:02

In article <s4e43cc3.008@CENTRAL_SVR2>,
hoskins@sonoma.lib.ca.us ("Tony Hoskins") wrote:

Wonder if someone would kindly let me know just how to initiate a
kill-file. Haven't a clue, but it seems a sad necessity.
Much appreciated.

Dear Tony: How to do this, technically, is specific to whatever software
you use either to read the messages as e-mails from the rootsweb list
server, or as Usenet newsgroup messages. Either way, one feature I use
to filter out useless material, is to kill any message (i.e. 'mark as
read' or 'send to trash') in which the 'newsgroups' header contains a
comma--that is, any message which is crossposted to the Usenet group
soc.genealogy.medieval as well as one or more other Usenet groups (since
they must be separated by commas in the 'newsgroups' header). This
filters out almost everything posted by, *and in response to*, one of
our most predictable off-topic crossposting trolls--and his justifiable,
if rude, legion of assailants.

Nat Taylor
http://www.nltaylor.net

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