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Re: to not read spam emails on debian MLs



On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 18:22 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> As a user, I cannot obviously dictate how the spam filters are setup in 
> Debian related mailing lists. At the same time, I am not proficient 
> enough to create spam filters of my own. The following method is what I 
> used to have a spam-free emails from Debian related MLs.
> 
> 1) Create a separate gmail account for subscribing to email lists.
> 2) Use this email account to subscribe to mailing lists.
> 3) gmail filters almost all the spam (99% efficient for me). But gmail 
> reader does not have a tree view to read emails.
> 4) Set up a pop account on your local machine and forward your gmail's 
> emails to this.
> 5) Read the spam free emails in your favorite email client.
> 
> I guess this is not the best solution there is. But it is probably the 
> one with least effort from the user.

Setting up a spam filter in Tbird isn't that hard, is it?

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