James Hogg    959269 Sun, 01 Nov 09 09:48 PM "I've just realised that I never see anything that Athel wrote unless someone else quotes him. This makes me ... the "From" field contains the substring ".cn". That shouldn't exclude Athel. Can anyone guess what is happening? I'm using Giganews." There's a .cn in Athel's address. James James Hogg

	Peter Moylan    959285 Sun, 01 Nov 09 10:12 PM "I've just realised that I never see anything that ... Athel. Can anyone guess what is happening? I'm using Giganews." "There's a .cn in Athel's address." Ah, so there is. Thanks for punching through my blind spot. I'm not sure how to fix that, because Thunderbird has only a crude method for constructing news filters. Peter Moylan, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. http://www.pmoylan.org For an e-mail address, see my web page. Peter Moylan

	Peter Moylan    959293 Sun, 01 Nov 09 10:12 PM "I've just realised that I never see anything that ... Athel. Can anyone guess what is happening? I'm using Giganews." "There's a .cn in Athel's address." Ah, so there is. Thanks for punching through my blind spot. I'm not sure how to fix that, because Thunderbird has only a crude method for constructing news filters. Peter Moylan, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. http://www.pmoylan.org For an e-mail address, see my web page. Peter Moylan

	Roland Hutchinson    959298 Sun, 01 Nov 09 10:27 PM "There's a .cn in Athel's address." "Ah, so there is. Thanks for punching through my blind spot. I'm not sure how to fix that, because Thunderbird has only a crude method for constructing news filters." Can you put in a rule that marks anything with ".cnrs" as non-spam? Might have to come either before or after the rule for ".cn" depending on whether the program stops processing after applying an applicable rule or goes on to additional rules. Roland Hutchinson He calls himself "the Garden State's leading violist da gamba," ... comparable to being ruler of an exceptionally small duchy. Newark (NJ) Star Ledger ( http://tinyurl.com/RolandIsNJ ) Roland Hutchinson

	James Hogg    959300 Sun, 01 Nov 09 10:34 PM "There's a .cn in Athel's address." "Ah, so there is. Thanks for punching through my blind spot. I'm not sure how to fix that, because Thunderbird has only a crude method for constructing news filters." You could always try to persuade Athel to stop working for the Compagnies Nationales Républicaines de Sécurité. James James Hogg

	Roland Hutchinson    959324 Sun, 01 Nov 09 11:00 PM "Ah, so there is. Thanks for punching through my blind ... Thunderbird has only a crude method for constructing news filters." "You could always try to persuade Athel to stop working for the Compagnies Nationales Républicaines de Sécurité." Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, rather, n'est-ce pas? Roland Hutchinson He calls himself "the Garden State's leading violist da gamba," ... comparable to being ruler of an exceptionally small duchy. Newark (NJ) Star Ledger ( http://tinyurl.com/RolandIsNJ ) Roland Hutchinson

	John O'Flaherty    959382 Mon, 02 Nov 09 12:09 AM "Would you punctuate "I wonder how it does that" with a period or a question mark?" "At one time I would have been guided by its grammatical form as a statement, and used a period. Today I consider that a question mark is correct if *either* the sense or the grammatical form implies a question, and would use one." I agree with that. If it's just a declaration of perplexity, it would take a period, but if an answer is invited, it has the sense of a question. John John O'Flaherty Punctuation, Question Marks

	John Dean    959383 Mon, 02 Nov 09 12:13 AM "I've just realised that I never see anything that Athel wrote unless someone else quotes him. This makes me ... mail filters reject only two domains, plus anything where the "From" field contains the substring ".cn". That shouldn't exclude Athel." None of my business but I'm curious - why do you exclude .cn posts? John Dean Oxford John Dean Careers, Business

	Patok    959402 Mon, 02 Nov 09 12:40 AM "I've just realised that I never see anything that Athel ... "From" field contains the substring ".cn". That shouldn't exclude Athel." "None of my business but I'm curious - why do you exclude .cn posts?" I'd make an educated guess - because most spam comes from China? However, Giganes should make a better job of killing spam, so he wouldn't have to use the killfile filter for that. It's primary purpose is to filter specific people one does not wish to read, rather than being a catch-all for spam. Eternal-september, what I'm using, cleans spam quite satisfactorily. You'd be crazy to e-mail me with the crazy. But leave the div alone. Patok