[pchelpers] Re: New member

Hi John and Re-Na

> I also get junk mail characteristically promoting free ring tones. They are a 
> giveaway for junk mail. Why not set your filters to automatically delete mail 
> containing this phrase?
> Enjoy,
> Internet Support
> WebTunes
> Welcome,

Hand-made filters are useless for many reasons, the most obvious being 
that the same spammer already sends dozens of similar emails with 
completely different wording. Thunderbird's scam detection has so far 
caught all spam of this kind i've received, but its junk mail filter has 
not been able to identify them even though i teach it each time that 
this is junk. If even an excellent Bayesian filter like TB's is having 
trouble, manual filters are even more quixotic than normal in this case.

Re-Na, in looking in the knowledge base, i discovered this interesting 
bug report at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_2.0_installation_issues:
The Email-Scams feature at Tools -> Options -> Privacy can cause 
Thunderbird to use 90% of the CPU and consume large amounts of memory. 
This is due to the maximum number of URLs it will try to check. Disable 
the feature if you run into this problem. Many users have already 
disabled the feature due to false alerts.



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