On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 08:01:41PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:44:25PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: > > On Wed May 16, 2007 at 03:27:41 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > > >> This is a function of your MUA, most decent mail readers and all news > > > >> readers worthy of being called such support highlight/kill by thread, > > > >> usually in a single keystroke. > > > > > > > > I have to admit my ignorance then. I'm a keen mutt user, but I cannot > > > > find that feature (!) > > > > > > As advanced as Mutt is, this is where Mutt really falls down. I > > > ultimately > > > ended up switching to kmail to get that feature. > > > > OK here's a simple version. > > That's the sort of thing I was after - but in the mean time I've created > my own based on message-ids, as I realised that threading isn't done by > subject. > > It's not perfect (because of other people's broken MUAs) - long threads > will end up with mails that do not refer to my "killed" message-id > (apparantly MUAs are only required to keep 8 message-ids in References:) > still end up in my normal list mailbox. At least it allow me to check > up on Goodwin's law :-)
I'm not sure Godwin's law applies to this list, given at least one OT thread that went on & on about or including such references. To me these OT threads seem to be predominantly about religion or other "faith" or opinion-based topics, and seem a complete waste of time, not to mention resources. But they also appear to stroke the egos involved, so are perhaps a cost in keeping some frequent-and-otherwise-useful posters active on the list, and are in any case easily identified and ignorable by the "OT" tags. -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
