Re: Should Emails Have An Expiration Date

2011-02-28 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
On 2/28/2011 7:20 PM, John Levine wrote: I do like the idea with respect to alerts; if email programs (especially those on smart phones) would know to avoid alerting you of unread + expired messages, that could be quite beneficial. Especially if I could set expiration times with thunderbird filt

Re: Should Emails Have An Expiration Date

2011-02-28 Thread John Levine
>I do like the idea with respect to alerts; if email programs (especially >those on smart phones) would know to avoid alerting you of unread + >expired messages, that could be quite beneficial. Especially if I could >set expiration times with thunderbird filters. If people keep at it, they may ye

Re: Should Emails Have An Expiration Date

2011-02-28 Thread Matt
>> Looking at top 8 newest messages from my personnel email account: > > [Spammy subjects deleted] None of them are SPAM. If I wanted to unsubscribe from them I would. Its just if I do not read them within 30 days why keep them. > It looks like you need some sort of anti-spam system.  Maybe > so

Re: Should Emails Have An Expiration Date

2011-02-28 Thread Jay Plesset
How about something that doesn't depend on the SENDER setting something? I've set my system up to automatically "empty the trash" after 30 days, and dump the "spam" folder after 2 weeks. I could easily set up an "archive" folder for my users and automatically "expire" their inbox at whatever

Re: Should Emails Have An Expiration Date

2011-02-28 Thread David F. Skoll
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:51:32 -0600 Matt wrote: > Looking at top 8 newest messages from my personnel email account: [Spammy subjects deleted] It looks like you need some sort of anti-spam system. Maybe someone on this list can recommend one to you. (You aren't trolling for the guy proposing th

Re: Should Emails Have An Expiration Date

2011-02-28 Thread Matt
Looking at top 8 newest messages from my personnel email account: Newsletter Magazine Renwal Offer Ebook Update Notice Travel Deal of Week Sales Flyer with weekly specials Reply to forum thread Anouther Newsletter Custommer Service Response. Etc. Hmm. All of these could really expire at 30 day ma

Re: Should Emails Have An Expiration Date

2011-02-28 Thread Adam Katz
On 02/28/2011 12:53 PM, Gary Smith wrote: >> I think this would be a great idea. Many end users never bother >> to delete old emails and on some, such as sales etc, there is no >> valid reason for them to countinue to waste disk and server space. >> >> http://www.zdnet.com/news/should-emails-have

Re: FRT_APPROV, FRT_EXPERIENCE FPs on French text

2011-02-28 Thread Kris Deugau
Adam Katz wrote: On 02/28/2011 08:24 AM, Kris Deugau wrote: Mail reported by a customer as falsely tagged showed these rule hits. I've scored these rules down for now. Checking through the message text showed these likely matches: FRT_APPROV:approuvé FRT_EXPERIENCE:Expérience I'm pre

RE: Should Emails Have An Expiration Date

2011-02-28 Thread Gary Smith
> I think this would be a great idea. Many end users never bother to > delete old emails and on some, such as sales etc, there is no valid > reason for them to countinue to waste disk and server space. > > http://www.zdnet.com/news/should-emails-have-an-expiration-date/6197888 No since emails

Re: Should Emails Have An Expiration Date

2011-02-28 Thread David F. Skoll
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:42:56 -0600 Matt wrote: > I think this would be a great idea. I think it's dumb on so many levels it's hard to know where to begin. 1) Having an Expires: header would make naive users think that it's actually technically possible to force their email messages to expire.

Re: Should Emails Have An Expiration Date

2011-02-28 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 2/28/2011 3:42 PM, Matt wrote: > I think this would be a great idea. Many end users never bother to > delete old emails and on some, such as sales etc, there is no valid > reason for them to countinue to waste disk and server space. > > http://www.zdnet.com/news/should-emails-have-an-expiration

Should Emails Have An Expiration Date

2011-02-28 Thread Matt
I think this would be a great idea. Many end users never bother to delete old emails and on some, such as sales etc, there is no valid reason for them to countinue to waste disk and server space. http://www.zdnet.com/news/should-emails-have-an-expiration-date/6197888

Re: FRT_APPROV, FRT_EXPERIENCE FPs on French text

2011-02-28 Thread Adam Katz
On 02/28/2011 08:24 AM, Kris Deugau wrote: > Mail reported by a customer as falsely tagged showed these rule hits. > I've scored these rules down for now. > > Checking through the message text showed these likely matches: > > FRT_APPROV:approuvé > > FRT_EXPERIENCE:Expérience > > I'm pre

FRT_APPROV, FRT_EXPERIENCE FPs on French text

2011-02-28 Thread Kris Deugau
Mail reported by a customer as falsely tagged showed these rule hits. I've scored these rules down for now. Checking through the message text showed these likely matches: FRT_APPROV: approuvé FRT_EXPERIENCE: Expérience I'm pretty sure it's the accented 'e' in each word that's the trigger.