Re: Filter Analogy

2000-09-21 Thread Tony Boom
This message: 21/09/2000 09:17 GMT. Hello Allie, A reminder of what A ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) typed on: 20 September 2000 at 17:16:29 GMT -0500 ACM Loads a stuff about Little Robots. Thanks you very much Allie. My kids were getting fed up with The Three Little Bears. I've printed out you

Re: Filter Analogy

2000-09-21 Thread Paula Ford
On Wednesday, September 20, 2000, jbelk wrote: Thanks to all the good people here that explained filtering to me last night. I found that my mental image of how filters worked was completely different from reality. In order to understand them I came up with an analogy that may or

Re: Filter Analogy

2000-09-21 Thread A . Curtis Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 06:31:05 -0400, Paula Ford wrote: PF I'm glad it's clearer to you, but I don't like the analogy of multiple PF robots who examine the email. I prefer to think of it this way, using PF moving messages to folders to illustrate. PF

Filter Analogy

2000-09-20 Thread jbelk
Thanks to all the good people here that explained filtering to me last night. I found that my mental image of how filters worked was completely different from reality. In order to understand them I came up with an analogy that may or may not be completely accurate. Feel free to

Re: Filter Analogy

2000-09-20 Thread A . Curtis Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:56:28 -0600, jbelk wrote: j There are actually as many robots as filters I've created. Each of j these little robots examine all the mail to see if any of it suits j what their defined job. If so, they grab it. Exactly. :-)

Re: Filter Analogy

2000-09-20 Thread Havivah D. Schwartz
Hi jbelk, I like the image of little robots marching to your orders, to and from the mailbox, presenting you with little packets of letters, tearing up junk mail... :) but your analogy isn't quite right. Let's imagine that there are as many robots as there are filters. The way you describe

Re[2]: Filter Analogy

2000-09-20 Thread jbelk
Hey Havivah, Wednesday, September 20, 2000, 4:34:02 PM, you wrote: Havivah Hi jbelk, Havivah I like the image of little robots marching to your orders, to and from Havivah the mailbox, presenting you with little packets of letters, tearing up Havivah junk mail... :) Havivah but your analogy