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This article is from the rec.arts.tv.soaps FAQ, by Margaret D. Gibbs gibbsm@ll.mit.edu with numerous contributions by
others.
11. Outlook Express Information (rec.arts.tv.soaps)
(Written by "ElmerCat" <elmercat@nycap.rr.com>)
OutlookExpress (v5) has very powerful features for filtering messages,
but it took a bit of setting up to get the results I wanted:
First, Create a new message rule to ignore the soaps you are not
interested in:
1) - From the "Tools" menu, select "Message Rules" - "News"
2) - Press "New"
3) - In the first list-box, check the item "Where the Subject line
contains specific words"
4) - In the second list-box, check the item "Mark the message as
Watched or Ignored"
5) - In the #3 text-box, click on the highlighted "specific words".
6) - Enter as many soap prefixes as desired for the soaps you are not
interested in. (e.g.: If you don't like Guiding Light or
As The World Turns, enter: "Gl:", "GL-" and "ATWT". Do not enter
just "GL" because it will ignore any "GL" in the subject
such as: "Glad Cricket changed her hair")
7) - Also, in the #3 text-box, click on "watched or ignored".
8) - Select the option to "ignore".
9) - Give the rule a name in #4 text-box such as: "Ignore Undesirable
Soaps".
10) - Press "Apply Now", select your new rule and press "Apply Now".
Next, define a new custom view to hide ignored messages.:
1) from the "Views" menu, select "Current View" - "Define Views".
2) - Press "New"
3) - In the #1 list-box, check the item: "Where the message is Watched or
Ignored"
4) - In the #2 text-box, click on "watched or ignored".
5) - Select the option: "ignore".
6) - Also, in the #2 text-box, click on "show/hide".
7) - Select the option: "hide".
8) - Give the custom view a name in #3 text-box such as: "Hide Ignored
Messages".
9) - Select the new view and press "Apply View".
As you read the newsgroup and encounter undesireable messages that have
slipped through your filtering, don't have the proper soap prefix or that
you just don't want to see, tag them as "Ignored" by clicking twice on the
"Watch/Ignore" field so that the "no-entry" symbol appears. Newly ignored
messages will not automatically disappear from the message list. To hide
them, switch to the "Show All Messages" view and then back to the "Hide
Ignored Messages" view. As you can see when setting this up, there are many
other things that Message Rules can do to customize how the newsgroup
appears to you. If anyone is having trouble with this or would like more
information I will be glad to help.
BE AWARE: Microsoft Outlook Express often strips the abbreviations in
the subject line (ie AMC, GL) - to get around this, you must add the
abbreviations back in before you hit "Post."
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