Kenneth Pardue wrote: > Hey guys, I'm pretty much down to one last little biff with mail/news. > To be honest, I'm not sure if this is a bug, a feature request, or even > if it is a known/realized issue. > > In newsgroups, most both web-based forums and application readers > provide a way to let a user know immediately whether or not a post has > been made to a watched thread. In web based forums, this comes as an > option to "email me when someone replies to my thread." In applications > (such as Outlook express... yeeck) a newsgroup containing a watched > thread with a new unread message in it shows up red instead of black. > > Will Mozilla provide any kind of functionality like this in the end? If > there's a bug report for it, I couldn't find it. And if there is, could > someone give me a link so that I can vote on it? This is pretty much > the last of my 'essential quirks' that Mozilla must have to make it > superior.
Mozilla has a "watched threads" feature (I've never used it so I don't know if it works...or even what exactly it does). Go to the Message menu, it should be at the bottom (at least in 0.9.9). The hotkey is "W".
