On May 2, 1:20 pm, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mensanator wrote: > > On May 2, 9:53 am, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Shawn Milochik wrote: > >>> How does one "plonk" stuff from Google Groups? Specifically, how > >>> can this be done in Gmail? > >> Set up a filter that looks for some phrase in the mail headers that > >> identifies messages originating from google groups. Gmail's filters are > >> fairly flexible. I'd probably just have it look for certain words. > >> Look at an e-mail's source (raw view) and particularly check in the > >> headers for things to filter by. > > > Why don't you just block all messages from Gmail? > > Brilliant! Seeing as he's asking about doing the filtering in Gmail > (implying it's use for his own posting and viewing the list) that would > work splendidly for him! Or not. > > Of course you're not likely to see this message either since I and many > folks on here post from gmail. > > Spam comes mainly from Google Groups, not as much from Gmail in my > experience.
I didn't say it was POSTED from gmail, but the spammers often have gmail addresses, to wit: age of empires 3 crack serial 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (1 author) Apr 30 microsoft office word 2007 keygen download 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (1 author) Apr 30 ulead video studio 8 serial crack 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (1 author) Apr 30 daylight savings time patch 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (1 author) Apr 30 the sims 2 crack 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (1 author) Apr 30 fifa manager 08 crack 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (1 author) Apr 30 autocad 2005 cracks and cheats 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (1 author) Apr 30 rar password crack 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (1 author) Apr 30 crack rock cooking 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (1 author) Apr 30 vws crack 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (1 author) Apr 30 Why aren't you blaming gmail for it's contribution to the problem? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
