From: ds829 (Tom Bach) Newsgroups: ncf.admin.net-abuse.discussion Subject: Re: Spam holiday Date: 10 Mar 2001 04:07:54 GMT Organization: The National Capital FreeNet Message-ID: <98c9aq$f05$1@freenet9.carleton.ca> Using the Elm filtering system is easy, just requires some typing. Go elm/5/4 (assuming you have an editor defined) gets you into a file where you type in statements such as if (subject = "business") then save "~/junk" if (subject = "buy") then save "~/junk" if (subject = "cash") then save "~/junk" if (subject = "check") then save "~/junk" Note the operator is " = ". Exit the editor and the file is saved. Finally choose item 3 from the mail filtering menu to activate the filtering process. Using statements like the above with junk mail fitting the IF statements provides results in a file called "junk" which can be viewed from Go workfiles/6 or from entering Elm itself (type 'e'), then 'c' then type 'junk' and view the emails collected in this folder. Item 5 from the mail filtering menu allows you to see the actions being taken as email is filtered. A few test mails to yourself should convince you it works. You will be able to add to your list of IF statements as you look for new subject lines and from addresses. The search string in " " quotes matches if all or part of the string is present, so "buy" will also serve to detect "buyout". Try it, you'll like it.