I'm using SeaMonkey 2.49.4 (under Debian 9.0). I downloaded it from the
SeaMonkey site.
After an long absence I decided to again follow a USENET group
(comp.lang.forth).
My provider indicates there are ~150k posts available. I chose to
download 5000, marking others "As Read". After a reasonable delay they
appeared and a thread of interest (~20 posts) was the third one displayed.
I successfully applied the same two custom tags to each, chose "Display
message threads, and read that thread.
*1st symptom*
While scrolling back to see if there were other posts of immediate
interest, I found multiple post marked as "read" - an error.
*2nd symptom*
I wanted _all_ post marked as "not read".
As SeaMonkey has always required (I started with Netscape 4.?), I
selected ALL posts and marked them as "read". I'd forgotten that
SeaMonkey chokes when asked to mark too many posts as "not read" [fails
with a "script busy notification" requiring a shutdown/restart of SM. I
found that it was happy marking ~1k posts "not read" at a time.
_QUESTION_ Is there a work around for this?
*3rd symptom*
I then searched Subject lines for a keyword. I discovered the first post
downloaded was the last of an interesting thread. I decided I wanted all
150k headers. I unsubscribed the group. I then subscribed subscribed
again choosing to download *ALL* 150k headers. It ground to a halt and I
could not exit SeaMonkey. I chose to a hardware reset and a cold boot.
_QUESTION_ How can I download all the headers. I know doing 5k at a time
works. I suspect 10-20k at a time would work. This is obviously far
outside the scope of normal use. BUT, does it rate a low priority bug
report?
TIA
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