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Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post

From The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>
Newsgroups alt.comp.software.thunderbird
Subject Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post
Date 2026-08-16 15:06 -0700
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On 8/16/26 14:53, Frank Miller wrote:
> The Real Bev wrote:
>> On 8/16/26 11:47, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
>>> On 2026/8/16 6:35:32, The Real Bev wrote:
>>> []
>>>> I wish there were ways to write-protect messages (and firefox tabs). 
>>>> Just starring or tagging isn't good enough.
>>>> 
>>> By write-protect, do you mean protect from deletion, for messages? (For
>>> tabs - I'm Edge - I don't have many problems of deletion: my main one is
>>> accidental drag-tp-(make-)new-window.)
>> 
>> Messages in TB and tabs in FF.  I want to delete a lot of the mail I 
>> get, but I'd like some to NEVER be deleted.  Moving it elsewhere is 
>> undesirable.  For some inexplicable reason FF tabs delete themselves 
>> sometimes and I'd just as soon have that controllable.  "Pinning" just 
>> makes them invisible, which seems wrong on several levels.
> 
> Bookmarks and Local Folders anyone?

I know about those.  Not what I want.  I want to keep stuff in the 
folder it actually belongs in without any danger of losing it when I 
clean out the kruft and bookmarks don't necessarily keep the history, 
which is probably why I want to keep THAT tab.

Yeahyeahyeah, never satisfied...

-- 
Cheers, Bev
=========================================
"Welcome to Hell, here's your accordion."

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Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-08-15 22:15 +0100
  Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post Nobody <jock@soccer.com> - 2026-08-15 15:10 -0700
    Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post None <none@none.none> - 2026-08-15 17:25 -0500
      Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post "David E. Ross" <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2026-08-15 16:32 -0700
        Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-08-16 00:41 +0100
          Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-08-15 22:35 -0700
            Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-08-16 19:47 +0100
              Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-08-16 13:31 -0700
                Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee> - 2026-08-16 23:53 +0200
                Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-08-16 15:06 -0700
                Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-08-17 13:04 +0200
                Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-08-17 13:35 +0100
                Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-08-17 14:52 +0200
                Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-08-17 15:12 +0100
          Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-08-16 10:13 +0100
            Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-08-16 19:55 +0100

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