Whisperer wrote:
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With one click you can make entire moronic threads such as
this disappear. If enough people do this maybe the stupid cross-posters
will get bored with
spamming themselves. It's not only possible but easy to ignore and hide an
entire
conversation (thread).
It's a simple two-step process:
1. First you have to set up a view definition to hide ignored messages,
then
2. when you're scanning posts you can simply highlight the original post in
the thread you want to ignore. Then click on the toolbar: "Message>Ignore
Conversation" Voila! The offending thread disappears!
Here is the way to set it up, copied directly from the OE help file:
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To hide ignored messages so they don't clutter up your message lists, click
View, point to Current View, and then select Hide Read or Ignored Messages.
Selecting Hide Read or Ignored Messages will hide messages you have read,
messages you have ignored, and messages you have both read and ignored.
If you want to hide ignored messages, but want to keep your read messages
visible, click Hide Read or Ignored Messages as instructed above, then click
View (again) , point to Current View, and then select Define Views. In the
Define Views dialog box, click New. In box 1 of the View Editor, select
Where the message has been read. In box 2, click the words Show/Hide and
select Show messages. In box 3, give this view a name (e.g., "Hide Ignored
Messages"😉 and then click OK.
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Once this is activated, when you first click on
"Ignore Conversation" on the Message Toolbar the thread just turns light
grey (ignored). But once you exit the newsgroup and return, the entire
thread is completely gone from view unless and until you decide to change
the view back to include ignored conversations.
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Peter
