Subject: Refusing messages from specific addresses

From: [email-masked] (Sven Jacobi)
Date: 25 Jun 1997 11:57:13 GMT

I'm using pine and I often get silly mails. Now I'd like to know
if there's an option within pine that lets you refuse mails from
single persons so that I won't receive their mails anymore. If
there's no such option within pine perhaps there exists another
possibility to gain the wanted effect.

Please send me an Email if you've got a solution for my problem
because I haven't the chance to look up newsgroups very often.
My address is <[email-masked]>

Thanks a lot.

Sven Jacobi

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 25 Jun 1997 17:19:24 +0200

>> "SJ" == Sven Jacobi <[email-masked]> writes:

SJ> I'm using pine and I often get silly mails. 

Yeah, me too... Yours for example was exquisitely silly...

-    When you join a list, monitor the messages for a few days to get a feel
     for what common questions are asked, and what topics are deemed
     off-limits. This is commonly referred to as lurking. When you feel
     comfortable with the group, then start posting.

-    See if there is a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) for a group that you
     are interested in joining. Veteran members get annoyed when they see
     the same questions every few weeks, or at the start of each semester.     

SJ> Now I'd like to know if there's an option within pine that lets
SJ> you refuse mails from single persons so that I won't receive their
SJ> mails anymore. If there's no such option within pine perhaps there
SJ> exists another possibility to gain the wanted effect.

Sure -- you could, for example, shoot yourself. Otherwise, you could
RTFM (yes, you *do* want filtering...):

    _________________________________________________________________

  How can I filter messages into different incoming folders?

   Pine does not perform delivery filtering; that is the function of
   other programs, such as (on Unix hosts) "procmail" or "mailagent." For
   details on selection and configuration of such programs, see the
   Filtering Mail FAQ (by Nancy McGough) at one of the following
   locations:

   http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/mail/filtering-faq/
   faq.html
   http://www.smartpages.com/faqs/mail/filtering-faq/faq.html
   ftp://ftp.halcyon.com/pub/ii/internet/filtering_mail_faq.txt
   ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/mail/filtering-faq

   Once you have successfully set up your delivery filtering, you will
   have new mail arriving in several different folders, in addition to
   your INBOX. You can then access these folders just like any other mail
   folder. You can also define a collection of incoming message folders
   in Pine, through which you can then TAB to read new messages. For more
   information, see Pine's internal help on the enable-incoming-folders
   feature in Pine's SETUP CONFIGURATION menu.

     _________________________________________________________________

Fall tot um, Junge... *grunz*

Robin

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Robin S. Socha,
Political Science Dept., Bonn University, Bonn
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