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