On Mar 5, 8:11 pm, "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:36:29 +1100 > > Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Those of us who identify the time wasters would also like to drop > > > the responses to their posts and changing the address makes this > > > impossible. > > > Not at all. AFAIK the messages from Google mail correctly include the > > 'In-Reply-To' field or the 'References' field in the message header. > > So, you can know by those fields whether a message is part of a thread > > you've previously identified. > > I don't want to have to tag every thread. I just want to *plonk* > certain posters. > > Anyway, I'll live with Google's failings I guess.
Sounds like you need better filtering. A decent news filter should be able not only kill a poster, but also all followups to that poster recursively. (No, I don't know of any that do that either.) Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
