On 17/04/2009 18:57, Larry Gusaas wrote:
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.
No. Writing two different filter-definition modules is more work. Why
won't TB let me filter on the other headers after the messages have been
downloaded? If the News component wants to define pre-download filtering
let it do that as an extra facility, which it clearly is..
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Harold Fuchs
London, England
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