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From: Charles Russell on 3 May 2010 23:09 Sjouke Burry wrote: > Charles Russell wrote: >> A Watcher wrote: >>> carolus wrote: >>>> On 4/16/2010 10:43 PM, A Watcher wrote: >>>>> carolus wrote: >>>>>> On 4/13/2010 3:46 PM, Craig Powers wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> In Thunderbird these >>>>>>>> tools seem to work only on e-mail, not on newsgroups. Perhaps some >>>>>>>> other newsreader has more capability, or perhaps I am misusing >>>>>>>> Thunderbird. >>>>>>> Tools - Message Filters >>>>>>> will pull up the dialog. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> It should then say, "Filters for: " with comp.lang.fortran in a >>>>>>> dropdown. You can filter by from, to, and subject. >>>>>> It is currently set to delete messages with "buy" in the title, but >>>>>> nothing happens (in the newsreader; it works fine for email). >>>>>> >>>>> Set the action to "Mark as read" >>>> That doesn't seem to work either, either automatically or when I >>>> select "Run filters on selected messages." Simply marking the spam >>>> would still leave me with spam covering 90% of my screen area and >>>> would not be much help, since the spam tends to come in big blocks >>>> that are already obvious. >>> Do you also have yours set to only display unread threads? >> >> No, I hadn't noticed that option. However, I can't get the filter to >> work. The option "Run filters on folder" is blanked out when the >> folder is a news account, though it is available for an email account. > I am using the filters on many newsgroups , and they work fine. > BUT!!! only on new incoming news, not on those already in the list. > So setting a filter now, will only benefit you tomorrow. Yes, combining "mark as read" and "show unread" succesfully removes messages from view without having to mark them manually. Thanks > Also, seeing the number of reponses to trolls, the filter will NOT > stop the responses. > Yet the group of people responding to each other in endless discussions, > can be removed by the filters, just right-click the from: part, and > select create filter from message. > In groups like sci.astro it cuts ~85 percent of the messages. This seems to require opening the message first. .. |