Re: [gentoo-amd64] OT: Ignore this thread feature?

Re: [gentoo-amd64] OT: Ignore this thread feature?

[Daniel Iliev]

Bob Young wrote:
> Joe Menola wrote:
>> On Saturday 30 September 2006 15:21, Bob Young wrote:
>>  
>>> I've never understood why people care about off topic threads. It's an
>>> *email* list, thus it's reasonable to expect that most people are using
>>> an email client or some derivative thereof to read the messages posted
>>> to the list. With all modern email clients that I know of, it's
>>> absolutely trivial to filter/delete/ignore messages in a specific
>>> thread. Given that, it's not like anyone not interested in a particular
>>> thread is being forced to read or even *manually* deal with unwanted
>>> messages.
>>>     
>>
>> Some might stay tuned in the unlikely event that the original topic
>> might be further discussed...
>>
>>   
>
> Uhhhh.....if you have some desire to discuss the "original topic" is
> there something that prevents you from either replying to a message
> without the OT warning in the subject line, or posting a new message
> with a subject indicating what you want to talk about?
>
Well, I got tired of this thread also. The problem is that there isn't
(or I can't find) an "ignore thread" feature in thunderbird, seamonkey
or mozilla e-mail clients. I would appreciate if someone shows me how to
do it.

Thanks in advance!


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Re: [gentoo-amd64] OT: Ignore this thread feature?

[Conway S. Smith]

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Daniel Iliev wrote:
> Bob Young wrote:
>> Joe Menola wrote:
>>> On Saturday 30 September 2006 15:21, Bob Young wrote:
>>>  
>>>> I've never understood why people care about off topic threads. It's an
>>>> *email* list, thus it's reasonable to expect that most people are using
>>>> an email client or some derivative thereof to read the messages posted
>>>> to the list. With all modern email clients that I know of, it's
>>>> absolutely trivial to filter/delete/ignore messages in a specific
>>>> thread. Given that, it's not like anyone not interested in a particular
>>>> thread is being forced to read or even *manually* deal with unwanted
>>>> messages.
>>>>     
>>> Some might stay tuned in the unlikely event that the original topic
>>> might be further discussed...
>>>
>>>   
>> Uhhhh.....if you have some desire to discuss the "original topic" is
>> there something that prevents you from either replying to a message
>> without the OT warning in the subject line, or posting a new message
>> with a subject indicating what you want to talk about?
>>
> Well, I got tired of this thread also. The problem is that there isn't
> (or I can't find) an "ignore thread" feature in thunderbird, seamonkey
> or mozilla e-mail clients. I would appreciate if someone shows me how to
> do it.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 

I don't think you can completely automatically ignore the thread, but in
threaded view you could just right-click->Mark->Thread as Read whenever
there were new messages.  So it is still manual, but at least you can
easily mark the entire thread.

Actually, I suppose you could probably also write a message filter
(Tools->Message Filter) rule that would be completely automatic, but
speaking for myself I'd probably just right-click->Mark->Thread as Read
whenever I wanted to ignore a thread.



HTH,
Conway S. Smith
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] OT: Ignore this thread feature?

[Daniel Iliev]

Conway S. Smith wrote:
> Daniel Iliev wrote:
> >> Bob Young wrote:
> >>> Joe Menola wrote:
> >>>> On Saturday 30 September 2006 15:21, Bob Young wrote:
> >>>>  
> >>>>> I've never understood why people care about off topic threads.
> It's an
> >>>>> *email* list, thus it's reasonable to expect that most people
> are using
> >>>>> an email client or some derivative thereof to read the messages
> posted
> >>>>> to the list. With all modern email clients that I know of, it's
> >>>>> absolutely trivial to filter/delete/ignore messages in a specific
> >>>>> thread. Given that, it's not like anyone not interested in a
> particular
> >>>>> thread is being forced to read or even *manually* deal with unwanted
> >>>>> messages.
> >>>>>     
> >>>> Some might stay tuned in the unlikely event that the original topic
> >>>> might be further discussed...
> >>>>
> >>>>   
> >>> Uhhhh.....if you have some desire to discuss the "original topic" is
> >>> there something that prevents you from either replying to a message
> >>> without the OT warning in the subject line, or posting a new message
> >>> with a subject indicating what you want to talk about?
> >>>
> >> Well, I got tired of this thread also. The problem is that there isn't
> >> (or I can't find) an "ignore thread" feature in thunderbird, seamonkey
> >> or mozilla e-mail clients. I would appreciate if someone shows me
> how to
> >> do it.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance!
> >>
>
> I don't think you can completely automatically ignore the thread, but in
> threaded view you could just right-click->Mark->Thread as Read whenever
> there were new messages.  So it is still manual, but at least you can
> easily mark the entire thread.
>
> Actually, I suppose you could probably also write a message filter
> (Tools->Message Filter) rule that would be completely automatic, but
> speaking for myself I'd probably just right-click->Mark->Thread as Read
> whenever I wanted to ignore a thread.
>
>
>
> HTH,
> Conway S. Smith

I think there should be a way to mark threads as "watched" and/or
"ignored" and afterwards take advantage of the markings via "Ignored
Threads" in "View>>Threads" (which can really be found there).
AFAIK this works on news threads but is not implemented for e-mail in
thunderbird. That's why I emerged seamonkey, but there's nothing
different in this context.


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Re: [gentoo-amd64] OT: Ignore this thread feature?

[Simon Stelling]

Conway S. Smith wrote:
> I don't think you can completely automatically ignore the thread, but in
> threaded view you could just right-click->Mark->Thread as Read whenever
> there were new messages.  So it is still manual, but at least you can
> easily mark the entire thread.

It's far easier actually... Just select a random mail from the thread 
and press 'r'. That's it.


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Re: [gentoo-amd64] OT: Ignore this thread feature?

[Conway S. Smith]

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Daniel Iliev wrote:
> Conway S. Smith wrote:
>> Daniel Iliev wrote:
>>>> Well, I got tired of this thread also. The problem is that there isn't
>>>> (or I can't find) an "ignore thread" feature in thunderbird, seamonkey
>>>> or mozilla e-mail clients. I would appreciate if someone shows me
>> how to
>>>> do it.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>>
>> I don't think you can completely automatically ignore the thread, but in
>> threaded view you could just right-click->Mark->Thread as Read whenever
>> there were new messages.  So it is still manual, but at least you can
>> easily mark the entire thread.
>>
>> Actually, I suppose you could probably also write a message filter
>> (Tools->Message Filter) rule that would be completely automatic, but
>> speaking for myself I'd probably just right-click->Mark->Thread as Read
>> whenever I wanted to ignore a thread.
>>
>>
>>
>> HTH,
>> Conway S. Smith
> 
> I think there should be a way to mark threads as "watched" and/or
> "ignored" and afterwards take advantage of the markings via "Ignored
> Threads" in "View>>Threads" (which can really be found there).
> AFAIK this works on news threads but is not implemented for e-mail in
> thunderbird. That's why I emerged seamonkey, but there's nothing
> different in this context.
> 

You might be interested in checking out sylpheed-claws instead of
thunderbird for your GUI mail client.  I'm probably going to switch over
to it myself sooner or later - sooner if I can figure out a way to
migrate mailboxes from thunderbird.  But anyway, I checked just now, and
sylpheed-claws does have an Ignore Thread / Unignore Thread option.
Unfortunately at first glance its threading seems to be not quite as
robust as thunderbird's, but that may be due to sylpheed-claws not
having all the previous messages in the thread.


Conway S. Smith
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] OT: Ignore this thread feature?

[Peter Humphrey]

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From: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org <gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] OT: Ignore this thread feature?
Date: 30/09/06 20:55

> Well, I got tired of this thread also. The problem is that there isn't
> (or I can't find) an &quot;ignore thread&quot; feature in thunderbird,
seamonkey
> or mozilla e-mail clients. I would appreciate if someone shows me how to
> do it.

May not be much help, but kmail does it.

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[gentoo-amd64] Re: OT: Ignore this thread feature?

[Duncan]

"Peter Humphrey" <prh@gotadsl.co.uk> posted
20061002113752.09D59E62CAD@smtp.nildram.co.uk, excerpted below, on  Mon,
02 Oct 2006 12:37:48 +0000:

> --------- Original Message --------
> From: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
> To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org <gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org>
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] OT: Ignore this thread feature?
> Date: 30/09/06 20:55
> 
>> Well, I got tired of this thread also. The problem is that there isn't
>> (or I can't find) an &quot;ignore thread&quot; feature in thunderbird,
> seamonkey
>> or mozilla e-mail clients. I would appreciate if someone shows me how to
>> do it.
> 
> May not be much help, but kmail does it.

As does pan (reading/posting thru gmane.org).

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