Nigel,
> Okay, I've no objection to kindness to news servers. But, I get an > error message about "too many connections" (which ultimately goes away) > and a constant hourglass (this is WinMe), even though the Stop light > icon isn't on. I'm guessing this is the "constant loading" RTH is > encountering on a Mac. We've got an open bug about it still being possible to open too many NNTP connections. See http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66150, but recent fixes should make it harder to get into that state. How are you getting into that state? Can you start a bug on it, and include a NNTP log. (see http://www.mozilla.org/quality/mailnews/mail-troubleshoot.html#imap for how to create an protocol log) > Giving credit where due, the "subject or sender contains:" field is a > very handy feature. That's Quick Search. naving implemented it. See bug #103734 -Seth
