And, here is a link to the Entourage rules tutorial page. http://www.entourage.mvps.org/rules/index.html
Paul Bernhardt (last post today!) On 10/21/09 3:10 PM, "Brenda Smith" <bsm...@westmont.edu> wrote: > I am dismayed at the amount of time, energy, and emotion that has been > and is being expended on the troll issue. Paul Meehl's comment, by way > of Scott, about the individual in question possibly not being educable > seems to make the most sense. We all have better things to be doing, > thinking about, and discussing, I think. And rather than waiting for > the administrator of the list to do something, I would like to see us > be more proactive in regaining constructive discussion about teaching > among the list members. > > To that end, then, I would like to reiterate an earlier suggestion: > use email filters. This is a simple, highly effective way of weeding > out and, therefore, not being bothered by or tempted to respond to > unwanted emails. Below, I've listed some of the email clients that I'm > familiar with and web links to instructions for how to set up a filter > or rule for a particular email address, in case there are those who > are not familiar with setting up filters. I would be happy to research > instructions for other email clients that are not listed here. > > A second suggestion that I would like to offer is that perhaps those > who feel compelled to respond to this individual's emails could simply > do so off-list rather than posting to the entire list. We often do > this in instances where responses are not necessarily of interest to > the whole list. In that way, those list members can attempt a > conversation with the individual, and the rest of the list members are > not pulled into that particular discussion. > > FWIW-- > > brenda > ________________________________ > Brenda Smith, Ph.D. > Westmont College > Psychology Department > 955 La Paz Road > Santa Barbara, CA 93108 > phone: 805.565.6113; fax: 805.565.6116 > bsm...@westmont.edu > ______________________________________________________________________________ > _______ > > For creating filters in: > > Windows Eudora, go to http://eudora.com/techsupport/tutorials/win_filters.html > > Macintosh Eudora, go to > http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/tutorials/mac_filters.html > > Outlook, go to http://corp.sover.net/text/support/faq/outlookrules.shtml > > Webmail, go to http://www.icaen.uiowa.edu/email/webmail-filtering.php > > Apple Mail (Excerpted from: > HTTP://WWW.FREEEMAILTUTORIALS.COM/APPLEMAIL/RULESWITHAPPLEMAIL.CWD) > > Let us imagine that an annoying colleague keeps emailing us about a > bowling contest in which we don't want to participate. In spite of our > lack of demonstrated interest for the event, Eric (e...@freeemailtutorials.com > ) keeps sending us these invitations by email. > > Rather than frustrate ourselves with manual deletion, we will just > setup a rule to automatically send Eric's rude emails where they > belong, the Trash mailbox: > > > > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) > > In the rule window above, we created a very simple rule, with a single > condition to meet: any email coming from the email address > e...@freeemailtutorials.com > will be automatically moved to the Trash mailbox. > > Always choose meaningful names for your rules. In six months, you may > not remember what "Rule 3" does. > > Click the Ok button. You should now see the Rules tab of Preferences. > A new rule has been created and activated, (indicated by a checked > checkbox on the left of its description.) > > The minimalist rule we created above does not do justice to the great > potential of rules in Apple Mail. To see an example of a more > elaborate rule, select the News From Apple rule and click the Edit > button. The rule may be scary-looking, but if you take 20 seconds to > look at its details, you will see how omnipotent and all-encompassing, > yet simple, rules can be. > > > > > > > > > --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
