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On Sunday, January 28, 2007 10:39 PM [GMT+1=CET],
James Mckenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Harold:
For the ordinary user, configuring Thunderbird is beyond their
capabilities. We make assumptions and
some of them are wrong. If you want to look at the headers (which is
what I stated), you have to look
at the full header data. Of course, you can set up a filter to pop
those messages into a secondary mail
box and look at them. It is possible to filter on any of the
'hidden' header data. However, I like to thread messages and this is
broken if I use two different mailboxes.
It's not *ordinary* users who I'm suggesting should configure Thunderbird to
show messages from unsubscribed posters. It's us savvy techies. And we are
perfectly capable of doing it. It's trivial.
It's not even a question of "popping them into a secondary mailbox".
Thunderbird has 5 or 6 inbuilt categories that it will show in different
colours in the *inbox* or any other folder you choose. All you need do is
build a filter that says "if a message has a 'Delivered-To: ' header and
that header has 'moderator for [email protected]' then assign it to the
'Work' category" or somesuch. The messages stay in whatever folder you want
them in and the threads do ***not*** get broken. Why won't you try it before
you condemn it?
As to comment 3, that is a shortcoming of Outlook Express. I don't
use it (I use Thunderbird at home
the full LookOut program at work), and probably never will, since
Microsoft does not have a version
for the Mac and I only use my WindowsXP system for testing and
development off of the 'net.
If you use Thunderbird at home I recommend you investigate the complete
simplicity of highlighting messages from unsubscribed posters. It will save
you time responding to messages in this list.
BTW, I took this technical discussion off of the list
Huh?
as it has
nothing to do with addressing User issues
but is more a my toy is better than your toy message.
Wrong. I'm not trying to say which toys are better. I'm trying to say that
for many users of this list who use Thunderbird and possibly other mail
readers it can be made an automatic process for the mail client to highlight
messages from unsubscribed OPs. The reason I mentioned it is that I know
fromt past conversations in this list that Thunderbird is quite widely used.
If the regular/frequent responders in this list can more easily see those
messages to whom they should reply explicitly with the poster's address then
that's a service to those responders. That has the direct consequence of
better addressing user issues as it's more likely that the unsubscribed
posters will see the responses sooner rather than later (when CPH or Dan or
someone has the courtesy to forward them).
I don't give a tinker's curse which mail client people use and I'm certainly
not in the "mine is bigger than yours" game. If you think I am then you have
me very wrong and I'm actually rather disappointed. I only mentioned Outlook
Express to point out that as a question of fact it's not possible to build
the relevant filter if you use it. Period.
James McKenzie
<snip>
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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