"Paul Safran" wrote:

I seem to have read or been told once that,
one can file an IFR flightplan with remark for
VFR flight conditions when not instrument rated,
or current, to get routing and practice within the system.
Comments?

Absolutely not. You can certainly get flight following, and follow
airways, and fly under the hood (with a safety pilot) and ask for
practice approaches, but if the PIC isn't instrument rated and current,
you absolutely cannot file an IFR flight plan, or accept an IFR
clearance, or go into weather conditions which do not meet VFR
requirements.