Daniel sent the following on Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:23:16 +1100: > Jim G. wrote: > > David E. Ross sent the following on Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:28:47 -0700: > >> On 3/11/13 5:05 PM, Geoff Welsh wrote: > >>> as someone here recently turned me onto free Usenet from > >>> EternalSeptember, I'm following several groups again. > >>> > >>> When a post is cross-posted to two groups, and I follow both, is there a > >>> setting I can tweak so that reading the post in one group marks it as > >>> read in both groups? > >>> IDR, > >>> GW > >>> > >> > >> This is long-standing bug #43278, first submitted over 12 years ago. > >> See <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43278>. Since this > >> worked quite well with Netscape 4.7, I really do not know why it has not > >> yet been fixed. > > > > Yes, this lack of adequate crossspost management has been an issue for > > ages and is the main reason why I've never given up on Agent as my > > newsreader. There are things about SeaMonkey and T-bird that I really > > like, including some things that Agent can't be made to do, but this > > crosspost business is a killer. Every once in a while, I'll switch to SM > > or TB for a week or two until I once again get just too frustrated at > > this, and then I go back to Agent again for newsgroups. > > As I understand it, development of Thunderbird by Mozilla staff has, > effectively, come to an end (only roughly yearly updates) and SeaMonkey > is developed, basically, by a group of volunteers (who, presumably, have > real day jobs to bring in the hard-earneds), I'm guessing there will be > little development in e-mail-reader-type bugs!!
Yep. And what time is devoted to things will probably be on the email side of things, as most people under 35 have probably never even heard of USENET. Once in a while, I take a look at the web boards on a place like Reddit and laugh that "kids today" think that that's a better way to communicate and exchange ideas online. Oh, well... -- Jim G. [Insert your favorite clever tagline here.] _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
