Hello Greg, I think you brought up a number of interesting points and I would like to comment on some of them. I will not quote most of your message, though.
> I would think with making TB! available for use with news groups (i.e. > via plugin) more options would exist. As I think you know, I (and a number of other TB users) already use TB for newsgroups. :) What options are you thinking about? > So if no other options exist, then you are forced to micro manage > the message DB as you receive them by reading every message received > and deleting those you feel unnecessary. That is basically what I am doing at the moment. For example, this list is set to keep messages for 15 days. When I see one that I think I may be interested in referring to in the future, I Park it so it won't be deleted when it is older than 15 days. But I think this is not what you are looking for, I think you are missing (like me) some of the options Virtual Access has, aren't you? I will mention some of the options that I think your are missing (I certainly am) also with the intention that perhaps "someone" may be "listening" and take note. - I think your are missing that in VA, for each folder, you can select the delete (prune) options to: Never (not even manually), Only Manual delete or Prune when older than... - I think you are missing that in VA, because it does "real threading" (I will comment on this later), even if you have selected "Prune when older than..." NO message in a thread will be deleted/purged as long as there is ONE message in the thread that is "younger" than the number of days specified. - I think that your are missing that in VA, in your preferences, you may select that "siblings" in a thread inherit certain flags of the "father", like Keep (park), Ignore, etc. - I think you are missing... VA. Period. :-) Now, aside of the fact that VA has those options because the developers thought they were really useful and implemented them many years ago, those options are possible because, as I have mentioned above, VA does _real_ _threading_. I'll explain what I mean. In TB, threading is just a a way to "view" the messages in a folder: by reference (using the In-Reply-To: and References: headers), by Subject, by From or To. But they are just _views_. In VA, the messages are threaded, and will remain threaded, independently of the view you select for the messages pane. Yes, this _real_ threading is possible because, for each folder, VA assigns a unique and sequential number to each massage that "comes in" to that folder. The _real_ threading mechanism is quite simple: when messages are being "imported" into a folder, by looking at the In-Reply-To or References headers (and/or the Subject, if this option has been selected in preferences) VA will 'locate' the messages "father", get its internal assigned number, and then create a new pseudo-header line "Comment to NNNNN" where NNNNN is the number of the father. This, added to the normal *.idx file for each folder is what makes those options that you miss possible. And also because this real threading, is why if you accidentally delete the root of a thread (or a branch of a thread) the siblings are shown as "orphans". > Now I know I could write a macro... A macro? How? As far as I know, in TB's context, macros are only usable in templates, right?. A macro, to me, would be some way to "code" or "record" a number of key strokes (menu options selections) and assign it to a single Hot Key or button in a user configurable toolbar. > How about an "Ignore" switch? I am experimenting with a somewhat emulation of VA's Ignore function in TB. It's working, but I still want to try to tweak it a little bit. It will never be as easy to use as in VA. > I must be missing something here because there has to be an easier > way. I think you are missing... VA. ;-) -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v1.60c ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.60i FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://bt.ritlabs.com
