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DRS wrote:
You're using OE. You can create message rules to delete or mark as read almost anything. You can do it if the subject line contains the word "helmet" or you can be more specific. Or, if you're actually interested in a particular topic or posts from a particular person you can set them the be highlighted by colour. There are other options as well. For most threads, I use a far simpler technique: I simply don't read the messages. I'm always puzzled when others imply they don't do this. Is that caused by a particular newsreader, or is it some personal thing? -- Frank Krygowski [To reply, remove rodent and vegetable dot com. Substitute cc dot ysu dot edu] |
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"Frank Krygowski" wrote in message
DRS wrote: You're using OE. You can create message rules to delete or mark as read almost anything. You can do it if the subject line contains the word "helmet" or you can be more specific. Or, if you're actually interested in a particular topic or posts from a particular person you can set them the be highlighted by colour. There are other options as well. For most threads, I use a far simpler technique: I simply don't read the messages. That is always an option. I do it with many threads in here. I select a post somewhere near the top and use the mouse wheel to scroll down the headers until I come to something that looks vaguely interesting and then I "Mark as Read" everything inbetween. (Shift-Click selects a contiguous range in Windows). I'm always puzzled when others imply they don't do this. Is that caused by a particular newsreader, or is it some personal thing? Too many people never explore their applications, preferring instead to criticise them, particularly if they were written by Microsoft. Things like message rules simply pass them by and then they complain about how useless their apps are. The same thing goes for reading or not reading things. It's easier to keep hitting the "Next Unread" button instead of taking control of your newsreader. -- A: Top-posters. Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet? |
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"Frank Krygowski" wrote in message
DRS wrote: You're using OE. You can create message rules to delete or mark as read almost anything. You can do it if the subject line contains the word "helmet" or you can be more specific. Or, if you're actually interested in a particular topic or posts from a particular person you can set them the be highlighted by colour. There are other options as well. For most threads, I use a far simpler technique: I simply don't read the messages. That is always an option. I do it with many threads in here. I select a post somewhere near the top and use the mouse wheel to scroll down the headers until I come to something that looks vaguely interesting and then I "Mark as Read" everything inbetween. (Shift-Click selects a contiguous range in Windows). I'm always puzzled when others imply they don't do this. Is that caused by a particular newsreader, or is it some personal thing? Too many people never explore their applications, preferring instead to criticise them, particularly if they were written by Microsoft. Things like message rules simply pass them by and then they complain about how useless their apps are. The same thing goes for reading or not reading things. It's easier to keep hitting the "Next Unread" button instead of taking control of your newsreader. -- A: Top-posters. Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet? |
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Good idea. There doesn't seem to be a way to filter out top posters, though.
"DRS" wrote in message ... That is always an option. I do it with many threads in here. I select a post somewhere near the top and use the mouse wheel to scroll down the headers until I come to something that looks vaguely interesting and then I "Mark as Read" everything inbetween. (Shift-Click selects a contiguous range in Windows). "Frank Krygowski" wrote in message For most threads, I use a far simpler technique: I simply don't read the messages. |
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Good idea. There doesn't seem to be a way to filter out top posters, though.
"DRS" wrote in message ... That is always an option. I do it with many threads in here. I select a post somewhere near the top and use the mouse wheel to scroll down the headers until I come to something that looks vaguely interesting and then I "Mark as Read" everything inbetween. (Shift-Click selects a contiguous range in Windows). "Frank Krygowski" wrote in message For most threads, I use a far simpler technique: I simply don't read the messages. |
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"Frank Krygowski" wrote in message ... For most threads, I use a far simpler technique: I simply don't read the messages. Do you mark them as read, though? I want to know how many (interesting?) unread messages are there for me to read. If I didn't mark the helmet threads as read, then I might think they were new, potentially interesting, posts. -- Warm Regards, Claire Petersky please substitute yahoo for mousepotato to reply Home of the meditative cyclist: http://home.earthlink.net/~cpetersky/Welcome.htm Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/ See the books I've set free at: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky |
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"Frank Krygowski" wrote in message ... For most threads, I use a far simpler technique: I simply don't read the messages. Do you mark them as read, though? I want to know how many (interesting?) unread messages are there for me to read. If I didn't mark the helmet threads as read, then I might think they were new, potentially interesting, posts. -- Warm Regards, Claire Petersky please substitute yahoo for mousepotato to reply Home of the meditative cyclist: http://home.earthlink.net/~cpetersky/Welcome.htm Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/ See the books I've set free at: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky |
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Claire Petersky wrote:
"Frank Krygowski" wrote in message ... For most threads, I use a far simpler technique: I simply don't read the messages. Do you mark them as read, though? Not usually. In fact, almost never. I just don't read them. I want to know how many (interesting?) unread messages are there for me to read. If I didn't mark the helmet threads as read, then I might think they were new, potentially interesting, posts. I just go by the subject line, and by switching back & forth between messages sorted by date, by thread, and (sometimes) by subject line. FWIW, I'm using Netscape's newsreader. I don't know much about Outlook's, and don't want to learn. But in Netscape, I can mark a thread as one to "watch," then easily call up a display of only "watched threads with unread." Sort of a white list. But I rarely even bother with that. I start with the date sorted list of all posts. When I see a subject line I'm following, I switch to thread sorting and follow responses. When I'm done with that thread, I go back to date sorting. There may be a better way, but in any case, I'm never going to read _every_ post! -- --------------------+ Frank Krygowski [To reply, remove rodent and vegetable dot com, replace with cc.ysu dot edu] |
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Claire Petersky wrote:
"Frank Krygowski" wrote in message ... For most threads, I use a far simpler technique: I simply don't read the messages. Do you mark them as read, though? Not usually. In fact, almost never. I just don't read them. I want to know how many (interesting?) unread messages are there for me to read. If I didn't mark the helmet threads as read, then I might think they were new, potentially interesting, posts. I just go by the subject line, and by switching back & forth between messages sorted by date, by thread, and (sometimes) by subject line. FWIW, I'm using Netscape's newsreader. I don't know much about Outlook's, and don't want to learn. But in Netscape, I can mark a thread as one to "watch," then easily call up a display of only "watched threads with unread." Sort of a white list. But I rarely even bother with that. I start with the date sorted list of all posts. When I see a subject line I'm following, I switch to thread sorting and follow responses. When I'm done with that thread, I go back to date sorting. There may be a better way, but in any case, I'm never going to read _every_ post! -- --------------------+ Frank Krygowski [To reply, remove rodent and vegetable dot com, replace with cc.ysu dot edu] |
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