Re: For EX users: Any changes to newsreading?

[Allen Watson]

Title: Re: For EX users: Any changes to newsreading?

Don't know if this will help, but the following little script, when run on a message that is replying to a thread, will locate other messages with the same subject and will select them. If you have threaded view with View All, this will select the opening message of the thread (if the thread is closed) and will select the entire thread if it is open. I believe, if you are viewing the newsgroup in the main browser window, that this will open a new window containing just the folder in question, with the thread highlighted. Don't know how useful this is. <shrug>

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
    activate
    set theMsg to item 1 of (get current messages)
    set theFolder to storage of theMsg
    set theSubj to the subject of theMsg
    if theSubj begins with "re: " then set theSubj to text 5 thru -1 of theSubj
    set theThread to every message of theFolder whose subject contains theSubj
    open theFolder
    set the selection to theThread
end tell
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Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> XNS name: =Allen Watson
Applescripts for Outlook Express and Entourage: <http://homepage.mac.com/allenwatson/>

> From: Steven Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 12:41:01 -0800
> To: Entourage mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: For EX users: Any changes to newsreading?
>
> on 12/15/01 9:40 AM, Allen Watson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Very few changes were made to newsreading in Entourage for X. Multi-layered
>> sorting (both for news and mail) is high on the wish list, I believe. I'm
>> not sure what you mean by viewing the entire contents of any thread with
>> unread messages. Obviously you don't mean clicking open the triangle to show
>> items in the thread...
>
> Well, in Entourage 2001 you have a choice between "view all" and "view only
> unread." What I'd like to see is the ability to do something in between...
> have the article list show all articles in any thread that has new postings.
>
> For instance, if this is what is on the server:
>
> Thread A
>    re: Thread A
>    re: Thread A
>    re: Thread A
> Thread B
>    re: Thread B
>    re: Thread B*
>
> (* is the new post)
>
> View all would show all of the messages. View new would only show the single
> new post. What I'd like is a view that shows all of thread B (along with,
> say, threads F, G and H which meet the same criteria). Give posts a sense of
> context.
>
> It would be called something like "View threads with new replies." :)
>
>> One thing that X has which I think may be new: In threaded view, when you
>> view a message in a thread in its own window, at the lower right is an
>> indicator such as "2 of 5" to let you know where you are in the thread. Very
>> useful.
>
> That sounds cool. Not sure if it would meet the need above, but it sounds
> like a good step. Now if only I could get it ordered...
>
> /me grabs Nerf(TM) Ball Blaster to have another "meeting" with with CFO
>
>
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