is there a way to set thunderbird so it automatically filters messages as they arrive?

Yep. It's under Tools > Message Filters.

I recall it being pretty easy to set up, though perhaps not as easy as Eudora.

(Oh, and ita, I'm finding that the built-in spam catcher on T-bird works as well as Spamnix was working for me with Eudora.)

I'm finding that the built-in spam catcher on T-bird works as well as Spamnix was working for me with Eudora

Oh, that's pretty sweet.

Okay, all you multi-computer people -- how do you manage mail? What I've been doing is keeping one machine that's on all the time with Eudora checking mail, deleting spam, but leaving non-spam from my mail account on the POP server until I get to it -- so I can read it from anywhere, and it's a pretty clean mailbox -- at least for the main account. Some of the ancillary ones are deleted from the server automagically.

It does feel odd to use the web client to read my mail when I'm only in the other room, but I suppose I'm addicted and my digital shoes are way too tight.

Israel Seizes 40,000 'Dangerous' Chinese DVD Players
Posted Apr 04, 2005 - 08:12 AM

Israel has confiscated 41,000 dvd players from China after tests found them “dangerous” due to excessive levels of radiation, which could even result in malfunction of pacemakers, a media report said.

"The increase in cheap imports from China has brought about a phenomenon whereby cheap and low-quality appliances are overflowing the israeli market," general director of standards institution of Israel, Ziva Patir was quoted by Ynetnews as saying.

Tens of thousands of substandard and dangerous DVD players are said to have flooded the country from China.

"Initially, the importer sent the standards institution of Israel a sample DVD player that withstood the tests," Yaakov Ventel, director of the standards institution of Israel’s industry department reportedly said.

Story source: financialexpress.com.

I have filters set up in thunderbird, but they don't run automatically. I always have to run the filters myself.

Am I doing something wrong?

This is a pop account.

Am I doing something wrong?

If you are, I'm doing the same thing. For me, Thunderbird runs the spam filter automatically, but the used defined filters are non-automatic. (Or is that just plain matic?)

manumatic?

What I've been doing is keeping one machine that's on all the time with Eudora checking mail, deleting spam, but leaving non-spam from my mail account on the POP server until I get to it -- so I can read it from anywhere, and it's a pretty clean mailbox -- at least for the main account.

Before I switched machines for mail checking, I'd do pretty much the same thing: leave Eudora running, keep real messages on the server for three days. If I ever find a better solution, I'll let you know.

Huh. Thunderbird runs all my filters automatically. I don't know what, if anything, I'm doing differently.

At least DXM and I are in the same boat and rowing.

PM, you must be super-special. Are your accounts POP or IMAP?

Anyone heard of this?

Opening a booth in the vast electronic mall known as the World Wide Web is fast becoming one of the hippest ways to reach customers and constituents, to judge by the actions of a growing cadre of businesses, government agencies, universities, and other organizations. The newest segment of the global Internet, the Web lets users wander by clicks of a computer mouse among thousands of custom-designed multimedia documents stored in linked computers.

....

After starting up a system to browse for Web pages, a user could find and read the text and then retrieve the graphic by clicking on the "link" to it (the link, in the form of a word, phrase, or icon, would be highlighted). The user might wish to correspond about the information with the original team, or might develop additional Web documents -- which could also take the form of color photographs, sound, and animation -- that perhaps could be linked to the original text page by the same highlighting process.

The creation of Mosaic, a program that with colorful, "windows"-style graphics makes browsing easy and enjoyable, has fueled an explosion in Web use and development far beyond that envisioned by the original scientists. The public is starting to use the system to find documents posted by businesses and other organizations describing, say, how to order flower bouquets electronically or apply for admission to a particular university.

OK, that's from an article published in Technology Review ten years ago. Interesting and fun (for me, anyway) jog down memory lane.

A year before this article, I bought my first book on the internet - it described the Web as an experimental technology. However, I could not find internet access in Minneapolis at that time.

an explosion in Web use and development far beyond that envisioned by the original scientists

Porn.

I mean I wonder if any of the devisers went "Oh! Extra naked ladies! I'm pulling an all nighter on this protocol!"