Thanks to adding "newsgroups" to the Thunderbird filter (with customize), this newsgroup sure got a lot better S/N ratio. But I had to add "talk" to "alt" and "misc".
Adjusted filter
Apr 16, 2010
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How did you finally get things to work, Louis?
Pete
Louis Ohland wrote:
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< In short, with Thunderbird, Tools > Message Filters > Edit > Filter Rules > Add item (use "+" after last filtered item in list), Choose the filtered item (eg. Subject, From, Body...) scroll down to Customize, click on it.
Customize Headers pops up. Type "Newsgroups" in the textbox. Hit OK. Exit Customize Headers, back to Filter Rules. For the new entry, add a filtered item, select Newsgroups from list, enter part or all of group (misc or misc.survivalism, for example). Hit OK. You might have to dump out of Tbird for the new filter to work.
Now if only folks would stop answering cross-posts in this groups, you wouldn't see any of it. But it IS more focused on metalworking.
My filtered terms under Newsgroups: alt, misc, and talk.
Same here. That feature used to not exist, glad it's fixed.
Who was that Cliff character anyway? I vaguely remember.....
I believe he is a creature of back scatter, sometimes seen in fragments of replied messages and the likely cause of threads that start with Re:
Wes
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