Re: Packaged version of killfile?

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 08:01:41PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:44:25PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote:
On Wed May 16, 2007 at 03:27:41 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:

This is a function of your MUA, most decent mail readers and all news
readers worthy of being called such support highlight/kill by thread,
usually in a single keystroke.

I have to admit my ignorance then. I'm a keen mutt user, but I cannot
find that feature (!)

As advanced as Mutt is, this is where Mutt really falls down. I
ultimately
ended up switching to kmail to get that feature.

OK here's a simple version.

That's the sort of thing I was after - but in the mean time I've created
my own based on message-ids, as I realised that threading isn't done by
subject.

It's not perfect (because of other people's broken MUAs) - long threads
will end up with mails that do not refer to my "killed" message-id
(apparantly MUAs are only required to keep 8 message-ids in References:)
still end up in my normal list mailbox. At least it allow me to check
up on Goodwin's law :-)

I'm not sure Godwin's law applies to this list, given at least one OT
thread that went on & on about or including such references. To me
these OT threads seem to be predominantly about religion or other "faith"
or opinion-based topics, and seem a complete waste of time, not to
mention resources. But they also appear to stroke the egos involved, so
are perhaps a cost in keeping some frequent-and-otherwise-useful posters
active on the list, and are in any case easily identified and ignorable
by the "OT" tags.

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Ken Irving


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