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Conway S. Smith wrote: |
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> Daniel Iliev wrote: |
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> >> Bob Young wrote: |
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> >>> Joe Menola wrote: |
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> >>>> On Saturday 30 September 2006 15:21, Bob Young wrote: |
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> >>>> |
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> >>>>> I've never understood why people care about off topic threads. |
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> It's an |
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> >>>>> *email* list, thus it's reasonable to expect that most people |
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> are using |
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> >>>>> an email client or some derivative thereof to read the messages |
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> posted |
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> >>>>> to the list. With all modern email clients that I know of, it's |
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> >>>>> absolutely trivial to filter/delete/ignore messages in a specific |
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> >>>>> thread. Given that, it's not like anyone not interested in a |
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> particular |
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> >>>>> thread is being forced to read or even *manually* deal with unwanted |
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> >>>>> messages. |
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> >>>>> |
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> >>>> Some might stay tuned in the unlikely event that the original topic |
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> >>>> might be further discussed... |
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> >>>> |
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> >>>> |
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> >>> Uhhhh.....if you have some desire to discuss the "original topic" is |
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> >>> there something that prevents you from either replying to a message |
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> >>> without the OT warning in the subject line, or posting a new message |
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> >>> with a subject indicating what you want to talk about? |
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> >>> |
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> >> Well, I got tired of this thread also. The problem is that there isn't |
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> >> (or I can't find) an "ignore thread" feature in thunderbird, seamonkey |
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> >> or mozilla e-mail clients. I would appreciate if someone shows me |
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> how to |
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> >> do it. |
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> >> |
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> >> Thanks in advance! |
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> >> |
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> I don't think you can completely automatically ignore the thread, but in |
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> threaded view you could just right-click->Mark->Thread as Read whenever |
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> there were new messages. So it is still manual, but at least you can |
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> easily mark the entire thread. |
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> Actually, I suppose you could probably also write a message filter |
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> (Tools->Message Filter) rule that would be completely automatic, but |
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> speaking for myself I'd probably just right-click->Mark->Thread as Read |
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> whenever I wanted to ignore a thread. |
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> HTH, |
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> Conway S. Smith |
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I think there should be a way to mark threads as "watched" and/or |
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"ignored" and afterwards take advantage of the markings via "Ignored |
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Threads" in "View>>Threads" (which can really be found there). |
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AFAIK this works on news threads but is not implemented for e-mail in |
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thunderbird. That's why I emerged seamonkey, but there's nothing |
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different in this context. |
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