JDH>>> Yes, and if we were using Forte Agent or Datula we could mark the
JDH>>> thread as Ignore ... Given that digressive or uninteresting threads
JDH>>> are an inevitable part of any mailing list, don't you think this
JDH>>> would be a good feature to add to The Bat! as well?
PF> Even if we could mark threads Ignore, it would still be nice not to have
PF> to download so many messages, most of which have little or nothing to do
PF> with the list purposes...
I suppose you could make kill filters for the threads and just delete
them from the mail server rather than downloading them, no?
>> It's like cursing the sun for being hot and demanding that it stop
>> doing so (sounds ridiculous but I can't think of a better analogy).
>> Get a sunscreen ...... In the same way I delete threads and messages
>> and this is why newsreaders are designed the way that they are. :))
PF> Yes, but TB is not a news reader. You want it to act like a news reader,
PF> but do you know another mailer that does that does also have news
PF> reading capabilities? I'm leery of adding these news-reader-like
PF> features before TB does and does well what a mailer should.
PF> In the meantime, anyone can filter to Trash any thread by subject.
Filtering to the trash still requires download time. Unfortunately I
have yet to find TB!'s filtering capability completely understandable.
Agent was simple enough to set up filters, and you gave filters
priorities and it would do its work, and its work wasn't restricted to
the inbox or outbox. In TB!, whatever I try, it seems to either leave
the messages on the server not downloaded, or it downloads them,
filters them into the TB! folder, and then doesn't touch them again.
Also, in the end, what I *want* is not to be able to create an
elaborate filter with rules and sitting in my filter list for the rest
of eternity, I want to mark this ONE thread "read" automatically, and
when the thread dies and goes away, the "filter" would go with it.
In other words, I may want to ignore "USE CTRL-F4 PEOPLE" for now, but
in the future, if it came up again, it would be nice to have the
choice at that time.
SO, I want to mark read based on a references chain, not on a subject,
not on a sender. Somehow marking a thread is the only way I can
figure that would work.
-tom!
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