On 2009/04/17 11:15 AM Harold Fuchs wrote:
On 17/04/2009 16:20, Dave Post wrote:
A newsreader is a different matter because it should "know"
everything it's dealing with is essentially email. It's a bit
surprising to learn, then, that Thunderbird's newsreader doesn't
support filters.
TB's news reader does allow some filtering. It doesn't allow one to
create a filter on the relevant header. I simply don't understand how
these people write code; how can you make the headers available in one
part of the program and not in another part of the same program? It
was *more* work to do it that way than to have made all the headers
available in both parts.
Thunderbird filters newsgroup messages for the Subject, From, and Date
headers. These are the only headers that are downloaded when TB checks
for new messages in a newsgroup. The rest of the headers and the body of
the message are downloaded when you read a specific message. TB does not
filter on the message or headers after they have been downloaded. It is
not more work to do it this way. TB 3 will have more filtering ability
for newsgroups. It is more work to provide this function.
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Larry I. Gusaas
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada
Website: http://larry-gusaas.com
"An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs." -
Edgard Varese
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