Re: Can we exchange ideas for Thunderbird message filters?

On Mar 7, 3:57 am, amzoti <amz...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 6, 7:03 pm, Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeo...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:





John R Ramsden wrote:
So far I've set up the following rule:

 From contains ".com"  (should catch most of the junk)
Subject contains: ***, paypal, rolex, lolita, hentai

with the action "Ignore thread"

I prefer "Delete message"

Myself, I have very few messages, but then again, I spend most of my
time ignoring headers afterwards.

Note that if you are using TB or SM nightlies, you can make Google
Groups postings vanish by filtering on

User-Agent equals "G2/1.0"

I don't see how to setup this filter in TB.

What am I missing?

In fact, I tried setting up a filter to ignore the ass**** who is
posting spam - and that isn't even working.

Any ideas

Me neither. I don't think Thunderbird filters are working at all
for usenet, even for new headers, because my "Run Filters" option
is greyed out even when I've just explicitly opened a group.

Also, to mark a message as junk, you have to click on the message
header, which downloads the message - Rather defeats the object
don't you think! And it seems you can't highlight a bunch of
consecutive headers and mark the lot as read or junk all at
once.

Worst of all, completely unforgiveable, I noticed a smiley in
one of my posts was converted to a big soppy "man in the moon"
image, completely at odds with the sly innuendo a smiley is
often meant to convey, and that pisses me right off. How
many more times - usenet is an _ASCII_ medium :-<

In fact I'm going off Thunderbird fast and may have another look
at Forte Agent, which I used to use, if that's still going.

Giganews Binary newsreader
(http://www.giganews-binary-newsreader.com) is almost useless,
because it won't download more than 5000 posts in a group.
(Written in .Net apparently. So any more messages must use
too much memory - What a pathetic joke!)


Cheers

John R Ramsden

P.S. Apologies for posting this in the dreaded GG too, as I'm
at the office.
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