I don't know about anyone else, but, I just discard the stupid things and move on with my day. -David Reed List Administrator: MAINE, NEW-ENG-GEN, MELINCOL (Maine, Lincoln County), ME-IRISH, CEMETERIES-HISTORIC-PRESERVATION, MARIN --------------------------------------------- "Actually, there is only one 'first question' of government, and it is "How should we live?" or "What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?" - George F. Will (1941-), American political commentator  Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. -----Original Message----- From: listowners-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:listowners-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of singhals Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 10:50 AM To: ZListowners LO Subject: Re: [LO] Pending Lists & Discard Ian Marr wrote: > My last comment on the subject (since a very small minority are > getting very nasty in private mails). > > If everyone used the discard option, how would we ever get the spam > filters trained so that the volume can be reduced even before it hits our pending? IME, reporting spam to the filter only increases the amount of it. As for training the filters? From the personal record-keeping I did, it looked as if what they were being trained to do was to reproduce themselves daily. Each time I reported a single spam, I got 2 the next day; if I reported 2, I reaped 4; if I reported 74, I got 148 ... this is counter-productive and an utter waste of time and resources. There is a limit to altruism, after all. Moreover, the discussion has branched like the Nile delta. One main branch is on about the Pending Requests; one main branch is looking out for the [listname]-admin@ mail. and each has divided into groups who are talking about the other branch with examples from the other branch. Cheryl ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LISTOWNERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message