Todd Allcock wrote:

> I'm certainly just as guilty as most of us lately- I need to restrain
> myself better and follow your filter-and-ignore policy. It seems to have
> worked for our iPhanboy Oxford, but of course he didn't have as much
> history invested here as He Who Must Not Be Named.

After a while you forget about the filters and don't think about why the
S/N ratio improved so much, then you go back and look at the filter log,
and wow!

Besides filtering specific posters, a few subject filters does wonders:

Subject words and phrases to filter:

"CHARTER"
"FAQ for AT&T/Cingular Wireless"
"Motorola cell phones FAQ"
"Navas"
"Oxford"

(all the permutations of MI5 subject words)


Posters to filter:

"spamfilter1@navasgroup.com"
"jarjar@nospam.com"
"noone@home.com"
"rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com"


In Thunderbird you want to be sure to do the global filters, not the
newsgroup specific filters.