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DougC said:

does thunderbird just suck or what?.....

It works fine for me on XP, OS X and Linux. What's your particular
problem?

Pete.
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Peter Clinch said:

DougC said:

does thunderbird just suck or what?.....

It works fine for me on XP, OS X and Linux. What's your particular
problem?

Pete.

What happened here was,,,,,
I used Thunderbird to create a couple filters based on sender
addresses--but one of those addresses posted after I had the filter in
place, and the post still showed up.

So then I tried creating a filter of my own email, and I sent a message
on that. And THAT post didn't show up for me..... but then I realized
that I did not know if Thunderbird posted that message to the NG but
wasn't showing it to me, or if it deleted the message before it was even
sent to the newsgroup server.....

The Thunderbird filters set to "delete message" by default, but that
only works for messages downloaded to the user's own PC--either regular
email, or setting a newsgroup to "work offline". And I don't want to
have to download all the messages.

The way you have to do this in Thunderbird it seems (to avoid seeing
messages you don't want to see) is to 1) set the newsgroup client to
"ignore read messages", and then 2) set a filter to mark offending
messages as read... but now I can't figure out how to get Thunderbird to
ignore read messages.
~

DougC said:

but now I can't figure out how to get Thunderbird to
ignore read messages.

Tools | Message Filters should drop you to a dialog, set the
Filters for: dropdown at alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent (I suppose you
could go for the whole news server instead if you want) and then
select New...
Filter name is your choice, then set "From: contains" and some
aspect of the sender unique to them, which can be [part of] the
actual email address or plain text that shows up in the From: field
(I have also added a "Subject contains" to get rid of some of the
[censored] about him, with "Match any of the following" selected so
it trips on any of the rules).

Under that, Perform these actions: should be set at "Mark As Read"

HTH, Pete.
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Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net [email hidden] http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/