Re: Does "Ignore Sub-thread" function
NFN Smith wrote on 23/03/18 06:18: Daniel wrote: I've also have had varying success marking as read anything with "A Idiot wrote:" in the body. The problem is any particular idiot can have something useful to say &/or trigger a useful sub-thread. YMMV Yeap, also suffered that as well! I've found that for that condition, using "mark as read" (for messages posted by the idiot) is sometimes preferable to "ignore sub-thread". A lot depends on the idiot. Smith Yeap! Been there as well! With m.s.ff being moderated now-a-days, a number of ff users are posting their ff problems to m.gen ... so they are being "Mark as Read"'ed of straight to "Kill thread"!! -- Daniel User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171016030418 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171015235623 ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Does "Ignore Sub-thread" function
Daniel wrote: I've also have had varying success marking as read anything with "A Idiot wrote:" in the body. The problem is any particular idiot can have something useful to say &/or trigger a useful sub-thread. YMMV Yeap, also suffered that as well! I've found that for that condition, using "mark as read" (for messages posted by the idiot) is sometimes preferable to "ignore sub-thread". A lot depends on the idiot. Smith ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Does "Ignore Sub-thread" function
Richard Owlett wrote on 21/03/2018 11:44 PM: On 03/21/2018 07:06 AM, Daniel wrote: Mason83 wrote on 21/03/18 19:04: On 21/03/2018 07:27, Daniel wrote: HP 6730b laptop dual booting Win7 and MageiaLinux 6 x64_86. Using SM 2.49.1 on the Mageia install. (Not tried on the Win7 install!!) In one of my Usenet groups, I've marked a sub-thread to be ignored (Message->Ignore Sub-thread.). So now that thread is showing as three unread messages out of a total of twenty-nine messages ... but no messages are showing up as unread!! Is this because the messages are being marked as read but the message count is not being decreased?? If so, can this be fixed or do I, after reading the "good" messages in the thread, mark the thread as read to set the count to zero?? I'm sorry to inform you that the "Ignore Sub-thread" functionality has been slightly broken for over a decade. Given the state of TB dev, this is unlikely to be fixed, ever. Regards. Gee whiz!! I only just noticed it in the drop-down menu in the last year or so, and I think last week was the first time I've actually tried using it!! I guess I'll just have to put up with that one idiot in that one group!! I've had success with filters. Automatically marked anything from one idiot as read can be useful. Yeap, done that in other groups. I've also have had varying success marking as read anything with "A Idiot wrote:" in the body. The problem is any particular idiot can have something useful to say &/or trigger a useful sub-thread. YMMV Yeap, also suffered that as well! -- Daniel User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171016030418 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171015235623 ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Does "Ignore Sub-thread" function
Paul B. Gallagher wrote on 22/03/2018 12:48 AM: Daniel wrote: Gee whiz!! I only just noticed it in the drop-down menu in the last year or so, and I think last week was the first time I've actually tried using it!! I guess I'll just have to put up with that one idiot in that one group!! Filtering works pretty well; I've tweaked it a bit over the past year by adding items to the list but this works for me: Match any of the following: Subject contains: PEDOFILO Subject contains: ASSASSINO Subject contains: PERVERTITO Subject contains: PEDERASTA Subject contains: BASTARDO Subject contains: MAFIOSI Subject contains: PORNO Subject contains: ASSASSINA Subject contains: CRIMINALE Subject contains: PEDOPHILE Subject contains: CRIMINALISSIMA Subject contains: NAZIST Subject contains: OMOSESSUALE Subject contains: DEPRAVATISSIMO Subject contains: DEPRAVATO From contains: MEGASCAMMER Perform these actions: Ignore thread. I think my similar filter is called "Assorted Italian" or some such! -- Daniel User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171016030418 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171015235623 ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Does "Ignore Sub-thread" function
Daniel wrote: Gee whiz!! I only just noticed it in the drop-down menu in the last year or so, and I think last week was the first time I've actually tried using it!! I guess I'll just have to put up with that one idiot in that one group!! Filtering works pretty well; I've tweaked it a bit over the past year by adding items to the list but this works for me: Match any of the following: Subject contains: PEDOFILO Subject contains: ASSASSINO Subject contains: PERVERTITO Subject contains: PEDERASTA Subject contains: BASTARDO Subject contains: MAFIOSI Subject contains: PORNO Subject contains: ASSASSINA Subject contains: CRIMINALE Subject contains: PEDOPHILE Subject contains: CRIMINALISSIMA Subject contains: NAZIST Subject contains: OMOSESSUALE Subject contains: DEPRAVATISSIMO Subject contains: DEPRAVATO From contains: MEGASCAMMER Perform these actions: Ignore thread. -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Does "Ignore Sub-thread" function
On 03/21/2018 07:06 AM, Daniel wrote: Mason83 wrote on 21/03/18 19:04: On 21/03/2018 07:27, Daniel wrote: HP 6730b laptop dual booting Win7 and MageiaLinux 6 x64_86. Using SM 2.49.1 on the Mageia install. (Not tried on the Win7 install!!) In one of my Usenet groups, I've marked a sub-thread to be ignored (Message->Ignore Sub-thread.). So now that thread is showing as three unread messages out of a total of twenty-nine messages ... but no messages are showing up as unread!! Is this because the messages are being marked as read but the message count is not being decreased?? If so, can this be fixed or do I, after reading the "good" messages in the thread, mark the thread as read to set the count to zero?? I'm sorry to inform you that the "Ignore Sub-thread" functionality has been slightly broken for over a decade. Given the state of TB dev, this is unlikely to be fixed, ever. Regards. Gee whiz!! I only just noticed it in the drop-down menu in the last year or so, and I think last week was the first time I've actually tried using it!! I guess I'll just have to put up with that one idiot in that one group!! I've had success with filters. Automatically marked anything from one idiot as read can be useful. I've also have had varying success marking as read anything with "A Idiot wrote:" in the body. The problem is any particular idiot can have something useful to say &/or trigger a useful sub-thread. YMMV ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Does "Ignore Sub-thread" function
Mason83 wrote on 21/03/18 19:04: On 21/03/2018 07:27, Daniel wrote: HP 6730b laptop dual booting Win7 and MageiaLinux 6 x64_86. Using SM 2.49.1 on the Mageia install. (Not tried on the Win7 install!!) In one of my Usenet groups, I've marked a sub-thread to be ignored (Message->Ignore Sub-thread.). So now that thread is showing as three unread messages out of a total of twenty-nine messages ... but no messages are showing up as unread!! Is this because the messages are being marked as read but the message count is not being decreased?? If so, can this be fixed or do I, after reading the "good" messages in the thread, mark the thread as read to set the count to zero?? I'm sorry to inform you that the "Ignore Sub-thread" functionality has been slightly broken for over a decade. Given the state of TB dev, this is unlikely to be fixed, ever. Regards. Gee whiz!! I only just noticed it in the drop-down menu in the last year or so, and I think last week was the first time I've actually tried using it!! I guess I'll just have to put up with that one idiot in that one group!! -- Daniel User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171016030418 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171015235623 ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Does "Ignore Sub-thread" function
On 21/03/2018 07:27, Daniel wrote: > HP 6730b laptop dual booting Win7 and MageiaLinux 6 x64_86. Using SM > 2.49.1 on the Mageia install. (Not tried on the Win7 install!!) > > In one of my Usenet groups, I've marked a sub-thread to be ignored > (Message->Ignore Sub-thread.). So now that thread is showing as three > unread messages out of a total of twenty-nine messages ... but no > messages are showing up as unread!! > > Is this because the messages are being marked as read but the message > count is not being decreased?? > > If so, can this be fixed or do I, after reading the "good" messages in > the thread, mark the thread as read to set the count to zero?? I'm sorry to inform you that the "Ignore Sub-thread" functionality has been slightly broken for over a decade. Given the state of TB dev, this is unlikely to be fixed, ever. Regards. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
