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On 2021-10-01 06:01, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 01/10/2021 11.46, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 2021-10-01 05:26, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 01/10/2021 07.06, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2021-09-30 17:17:08 Carlos E. R. wrote:
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Yes, killfiles is what I was thinking of; but I don't understand how to set them up.
On Thunderbird, Menu "tools", then hit message filters. The top entry says on what folder it applies; it can be the entire nntp hierarchy or a single folder. Ok, then hit "new" to create a filter. Give it a name.
There are two main areas: how to trigger the filter and action. The default selector is "subject", so you could say "subject contains [IS SPAM]". Then on actions you could move to another folder, or delete, or kill subthread, tag the email (give it a different color)... Finally, close the dialog, done.
Many, well my own, ISPs or aggregators run SpamAssassin. Perhaps they don't 'kill' but they do rate. The filter can check headers, check for SpamAssassin ratings. or things that begin '**SPAM**'.
Not on Usenet, they do nothing. That's if they even have a server.
And Thunderbird can not run spam filters on the usenet account, nor can spamassassin or any tool I know.
Start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_(newsreader) then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Usenet_newsreaders Your point being that most 'feeds' are 'raw', unprocessed. Yes, you can get email like that. Set up your own server, raw. Is this better security because you have absolute control, because you ow _exactly_ what pre-and-post processing your email is getting? What you mail transfer agent is doing? Was Hillary right after all? Is this better than your ISP? Better than Gmail? NNTP feeds are 'raw' like 'SMTP' feeds are raw, because that's the way ... oh wait! We've put more effort into the processing of email and email security. We generally don't read SMTP 'streaming' (though, once, when I owned a ISP, I did set up a streaming SMTP connection with another ISP owner in England. It was a 'just to show ourselves it could be done' exercise, pointless really. Or the point being you COULD treat NNTP like SMTP. But you are correct, Thunderbird doesn't have that capability. It's an issue back up the decision tree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOVER https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOV_(computers) NOV, or News Overview, is a widely deployed indexing method for Usenet articles, also found in some Internet email implementations. Written in 1992 by Geoff Collyer, NOV replaced a variety of incompatible indexing schemes used in different client programs, each typically requiring custom modifications to each news server before they could be used. Well that says a lot, look at the date! That the principle has been used aggressively in email, so letting me filter email on a 'SpamAssassin" header, says a lot. That there isn't such for 'news' says even more. And I don't want to wade though the <<expurgated>> manually. -- “Reality is so complex, we must move away from dogma, whether it’s conspiracy theories or free-market,” -- James Glattfelder. http://jth.ch/jbg