Thread Blocking

I have Outlook Express V6 on my machine (although I don't use it). Looks like you need to set up a set of "rules"; go to menu item Tools/Message rules/News and it will bring up a dialog box that allows you to define a suitable rule to delete incoming messages with specific words in the subject line.

Works a treat on my news browser (Agent) - I haven't seen any of the cr@p in the thread you mention for several days now.

Regards, Tony

I mark the thread as Ignored by clicking twice under the "spectacles" column header to turn on the stop symbol. Unfortunately this still allows the headers to be downloaded but not the body of the text, and the thread subsequently then has to be marked as read to get rid of the unread message count against the newsgroup folder. It's only a partial solution, but it's all I can find.

Cliff Coggin Kent UK

click on the message you wish to block and then look at the top of OE, see the Message button?. click on it, a drop down box will show, look down the list and click on ' Ignore Conversation and the box will close.

if you have done it right you will have a entry sign next to the thread you wish to ignore.

In Agent it's simply a matter of right clicking on a post in that thread and selecting 'Ignore thread' from the context menu. I'd assume Outlook has this feature too - given that's it's very useful ;)

Regards,

The simplest way is to do it manually.

Put the cursor on the first displayed post of the day, then do Control-T. The whole thread then gets marked as read.

Thank you for that. I have learnt a new trick. John

Thanks Cliff, and all others who replied. That works fine. Have just killed off another thread as well

Regards

Kevin

PS what do the spectacles mean?