A couple of things that I've noticed about the Seamonkey news client,
that I've seen across multiple versions. They're all minor annoyances,
but I'm wondering if it's just me, or something that's known.
I'm currently running 2.10 on Windows 7.
In newsgroups, I normally set the display to show only threads with new
messages, but I did some checking, and these things also happen with
viewing of all threads enabled.
- Sometimes, I will have viewed all the threads in a newsgroup, and the
newsgroups pane will show no messages in the pane, but where there are
several threads that indicate there are new messages. The first message
in the thread is viewable, but normally, the thread itself cannot be
expanded. The only way to make these threads go away is to ignore the
thread. "Mark Newsgroup Read" does not clear those threads
- I also occasionally have it happen where I've read all the threads,
but where the newsgroups pane shows that there are unread messages in
the newsgroup. As noted, this happens even if I've set the newsgroup to
show all threads. I can clear the counts with "Mark Newsgroup Read".
I work from several news servers, and the only place I'm seeing these
two items is the Usenet server at news.aioe.org. I wonder if there's
anything that may be server-specific...?
- More recently, since the release of 2.9.0 (or maybe 2.8.0), I'm seeing
instances where I ignore a thread, but later, if there's subsequent
message traffic in that thread, all the new messages will be shown (and
the oldest new post becomes the top of the thread), even if previous
messages are not shown.
I just checked, and if I enable showing of ignored threads (with "show
all threads" enabled), if the thread is collapsed, the message is
underscored to indicate new traffic, but if I expand the thread, there
are no new messages in the thread.
The place where I'm noticing this last item is mozilla.general, on the
news.mozilla.org server, and I don't recall seeing it on other news servers.
I have not tried to check behavior in another news reader (especially
Thunderbird).
Any ideas of what's happening?
Smith
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