[users] Re: Pinging Harold Fuchs?

[Keith N. McKenna]

Harold Fuchs wrote:
Keith N. McKenna wrote:
Harold Fuchs wrote:

<major snip>
Sorry. I forgot. I don't think News readers (NNTP/Usenet/Gmane) let you
examine the message headers in sufficient detail to tell if a message 
came
from a subscribed poster or not. I have tried reading this list via 
Gmane
using Outlook Express's news reader and Thunderbird's. Neither of 
those let
me see the "Delivered To:" headers. OK, that's only two out of very 
many but
I think it's generally true because news readers work differently 
from mail
readers.


Harold;
     I read this list strictly through gmane using Thunderbird and I 
can confirm that the "Delivered To:" heeaders can be read. There are 
two ways it can be done. to use the "View/Headrs/All option requires 
some css code to be add to your userchrome.css file to add a scroll 
bar to be able to read all the headers, or use the cntl-u shortcut to 
view source in a seperate window which will include all the header 
data. If you are interested in the css code i can dig it up and post 
it seperatelty.

Regards
Keith


Keith,

Thanks. Ctrl-U works.

Now, for your next mission, is there a way I can create a filter in 
Thunderbird's news reader (like I can in its mail reader) to allow me to 
highlight messages that have that particular header? When I try, I don't 
get the "Customise" option that I get in the mail reader. It's this 
option that lets me enter "Delivered To:" as the "type" of header, akin 
to "Subject", "To:" etc.

Harold;
   Unfortunately no. With the current 2.x branch of Thunderbird, news
filters are, to be kind inadequate. The rumor is that Version 3 is
supposed to have much better news filtering capabilities. I haven't 
tried any of the beta's yet as I don't have a separate machine to use 
for testing.
   For those interested, here is the css code to add the scroll bar. 
Just add it to the userchrome.css file in the chrome directory in your 
profile. Neither the directory or the file is present by default. If you 
can't find the chrome directory just create it in your profile, then 
create the file userchrome.css and add the code to it. The file is a 
standard text file. the code follows:
/* Horizontal Scroll Bar In Message Pane/Window Header */

#expandedHeaderView {
  overflow-x: hidden;
  overflow-y: auto;
  max-height: 14em;
}

Regards
Keith


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