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| From | Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Good browser for Usernet |
| Date | 2016-01-03 11:03 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <n6bgkj$ute$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <28dfa256-c3fe-4640-be95-32e44bedae6e@googlegroups.com> <ad93cc2b-ee66-4f33-91c7-19e466ee9def@googlegroups.com> |
On 1/3/2016 8:51 AM, jmclifford@aanet.com.au wrote:
> Hi All.
> I did eventually get around to installing Thunderbird (with my Mozilla Firefox) and connecting to the Eternal-September server (after creating an account).
>
> The version of Thunderbird is 38.5.0. It seems to download large chunks of whatever I subscribe to.
When you first subscribe to a newsgroup, you haven't yet read any
of its postings (as far as Thunderbird knows). If it's a low-traffic
newsgroup with few messages Thunderbird just loads them, but if there
are a lot of unread messages it asks you how many you want and then
downloads the most recent N of them for whatever N you choose.
Thereafter, Thunderbird just downloads new messages; it doesn't
re-download messages you've already seen.
> Is there any way I can filter this information with a selection before download ??
I'm not 100% sure. You can certainly set up filters, but I don't
know how much of the traffic Thunderbird actually needs to download
before it can apply them.
> Is there any way I can filter the already downloaded information with a filter that refers to the contents within the articles ??
Sure: Just set up the filters and run them.
> I think I stand to be dis-appointed with Thunderbird when I can do such filtering with Goggle user groups (wrt filtering over a whole user group based on what is contained within).
Oh, yeah, agree totally. Thunderbird is an utterly useless piece
of crap, and Australians are all congenital idiots who are prone to
making hasty judgements. ;-)
--
esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid
"Don't be afraid of work. Make work afraid of you." -- TLM
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Re: Good browser for Usernet Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-01-03 11:03 -0500
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