toylet [mozilla] wrote: > sounds like the job of advanced search. I think you may be right - what I want is a funky combination of "Advanced Search" and "View->Messages->...".
I could imagine the following: * New menu entry "Show->Messages->Advanced" * Dialog very similar to Advanced Search is displayed. * Selecting "OK" shows only messages that meet the criteria, but display them in the normal tri-pane area. This setting would be persistent, so next time I display the newsgroup, the same settings are used. This would allow me to implement what I want (Unread or watched), along with other useful combinations. (All this presumes, of course, that Advanced Search grows the ability to search on things like read or flagged state, or even other headers - but it sounds like the right basic architecture.) OTOH, it also sounds alot like "newsgroup filters" (again, which need implementing but do exist for mail). What overlap should there be between Advanced Search and newsgroup filters? Sound suspiciously similar. I think I better stop now - my head hurts ;) Mark.
