Subject: killfile for pine

From: [email-masked] (Mark Schlegel)
Date: 29 Apr 1997 04:19:11 GMT

I need kill file ability in pine badly, this damn cyberpromo
site (savetrees.com) is filling my pine mail with crap mail
all the time.  (no, replying with 'remove' does no good).
Can I do a kill file in pine?
I have 3.95 pine, the help in it doesn't mention kill files.

Mark

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From: Christopher Hicks <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 11:35:25 -0400 (EDT)

> I have 3.95 pine, the help in it doesn't mention kill files.

Not precisely.  You will want to something with procmail or something
similar.  They are quite effective.  A mail-filtering FAQ is widely
available on the web.

</chris>

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From: [email-masked] (Scott Norwood)
Date: 29 Apr 1997 15:14:16 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
>I have 3.95 pine, the help in it doesn't mention kill files.

Check out 'procmail'.  This is a separate mail-filtering package, that
works regardless of your Mail User Agent (in your case, Pine, but could
also be mail(1), elm, pine, exmh, Netscape [yuck], etc.).  Do an Archie
search for it.

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From: [email-masked] (Friedemann Baitinger)
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 16:04:56 GMT

>  I have 3.95 pine, the help in it doesn't mention kill files.

As far as I understand the subject, mail filtering is not the job of a
'MUA' (Mail User Agent). PINE is a MUA. Mail filtering should be done
by the 'MTA' (Mail Transfer Agent?). Tell your 'archie' to seach for
'procmail'. procmail can probably configured such that it does what
you want.  

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From: Geoffrey T Cheshire <[email-masked]>
Date: 30 Apr 1997 19:57:03 GMT

: [email-masked] (Mark Schlegel) wrote:

: >  
: >  I need kill file ability in pine badly, this damn cyberpromo
: >  site (savetrees.com) is filling my pine mail with crap mail
: >  all the time.  (no, replying with 'remove' does no good).
: >  Can I do a kill file in pine?
: >  I have 3.95 pine, the help in it doesn't mention kill files.

In the alternative, if you get your mail from your ISP (i.e. don't run
your own MTA), you might be able to talk your ISP into filering well known
spammers from the system, possibly with an "opt-in" provision for users
who feel they're getting something useful from spam.com. I know that more
and more ISP's are doing this.

Refs:
http://www.jazzie.com/ii/internet/mailbots.html
http://www.enee.umd.edu/medlab/filter/filter.html
http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~cbrown/BL/blacklist.html
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~wirzeniu/mailfilter.html
http://com.primenet.com/spamking/spamdam.html  	# ISP "spam damages" 

Hope this helps
Geoff
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