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Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet?

From Sandman <mr@sandman.net>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet?
Date 2013-10-24 05:40 +0000
Message-ID <slrnl6hd0v.4n7.mr@irc.sandman.net> (permalink)
References <bcprluF2oa2U1@mid.individual.net> <l49u1d$qlq$1@dont-email.me> <l49ue7$spn$1@dont-email.me>

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In article <l49ue7$spn$1@dont-email.me>, Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> wrote:

> > What is missing, in your opinion?  Thunderbird looks primitive
> > "out-of-the-box" but it actually allows you to filter on ANY header. You
> > just have to add the ones that aren't already in the menu.
> 
>  One thing I _WISH_ it could do is kill any _response_ to some specified 
>  troll.

Ah, yes that sucks. I have MT-NW (and now slrn) set up to kill responses to 
known trolls such as Snit. It's just a matter of using regular expressions 
and the References: header.

>  One other flaw in Thunderbird is that it doesn't properly mark 
>  cross-posted items as read.  So you get to read them again and again unless
>  you kill the thread the next time.

Ouch, yeah that sucks. Both MT-NW and slrn does that nicely. 

-- 
Sandman[.net]

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Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-23 13:53 +0200
  Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-23 13:36 +0000
    Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2013-10-23 15:09 +0100
      Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-10-23 08:46 -0700
    Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-10-23 08:46 -0700
    Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-23 17:48 +0200
      Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-10-23 08:52 -0700
      Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-24 02:57 +0000
        Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-24 05:43 +0000
          Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-24 06:46 +0000
      Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Martin Ī¤rautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2013-10-24 18:16 +0000
        Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-25 05:01 +0000
        Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-25 05:24 +0000
  Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? snipe@spambin.fsnet.co.uk (Sn!pe) - 2013-10-23 14:57 +0100
    Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-23 17:49 +0200
      Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Lloyd E Parsons <lloydparsons@me.com> - 2013-10-23 11:00 -0500
      Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? snipe@spambin.fsnet.co.uk (Sn!pe) - 2013-10-23 19:03 +0100
  Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Jesse <jesse.rehmer@blueworldhosting.com> - 2013-10-23 09:38 -0500
  Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2013-10-23 12:30 -0500
    Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-23 19:04 +0000
    Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-23 21:54 -0400
      Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2013-10-23 22:27 -0500
  Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-23 21:44 -0400
    Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-23 21:51 -0400
      Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-24 05:40 +0000
        Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-24 22:07 -0400
      Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-10-24 13:27 -0400
        Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-24 22:09 -0400
    Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-24 05:38 +0000
  Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> - 2013-10-24 15:44 -0400
    Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2013-10-24 14:51 -0500
    Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? snipe@spambin.fsnet.co.uk (Sn!pe) - 2013-10-24 22:25 +0100
    Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? AV3 <arvimide@earthlink.net> - 2013-10-24 21:12 -0400
  Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-10-25 10:15 +1300

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