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Thanks Peter, thats very helpful
Tara "marengo" wrote in message ... I jsut discovered this in the OE help file, and it's very useful. Instead of killfiling individual annoying posters who can and do morph on a regular basis, it's not only possible but easy to ignore and hide an entire conversation (thread). With one click I can now make entire threads (with posts by Andrew Chung, Mu, crossposters, trolls, etc. ) disappear! It's going to help keep my blood pressure as well as my temper under control. It's a simple two-step process if anyone's interested. 1. First you have to set up a view definition to hide ignored messages, then 2. when you're scanning posts you can simply click on the toolbar: "Message Ignore Conversation." Voila! The offending entire thread disappears! Here is the way to set it up, copied directly from the OE help file: -------------------- To hide ignored messages so they don't clutter up your message lists, click View, point to Current View, and then select Hide Read or Ignored Messages. Selecting Hide Read or Ignored Messages will hide messages you have read, messages you have ignored, and messages you have both read and ignored. If you want to hide ignored messages, but want to keep your read messages visible, click Hide Read or Ignored Messages as instructed above, then click View (again) , point to Current View, and then select Define Views. In the Define Views dialog box, click New. In box 1 of the View Editor, select Where the message has been read. In box 2, click the words Show/Hide and select Show messages. In box 3, give this view a name, and then click OK. ---------------- p.s. I did notice that once this is activated, when you first click on "ignore converstion" on the message toolbar the thread just turns light grey (ignored). But once you exit the newsgroup and return, the entire thread is completely gone from view unless and until you decide to change the view back to include ignored conversations. I hope this is as useful to someone else as it has been to me. -- Peter 270/215/180 Before/Current Pix: http://users.thelink.net/marengo/wei...htlosspix.html |
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marengo wrote:
|| Roger Zoul wrote: ||| That stupid OT bug prevents this from working flawlessly, ||| unfortunately. ||| || || What do you mean, Roger? Not that it's a problem or anything, but I tested your suggestion on the thread you started and it worked fine -- until OE stripped off the OT - then the message reappeared. A lot of us here use OE (I may finally move on to something else, though). |
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How to ignore and completely hide annoying or unwanted threads in Outlook Express
Lady o' the house generously shared with us this little ditty:
Thanks, Peter! I had asked a long time ago if anyone knew how to filter threads from the fat acceptance group, and was told it was a difficult process. Sounds easy enough to me. You asked about filtering *crossposts* --a different beast. -- revek HELP! I'M BEING HELD PRISONER IN A .SIGNATURE FACTORY! |
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Thanks, revek. Now I remember that you were the one who said that it was a
pain to do. I stand corrected! :-) -- Linda 296/203/160 LC since Oct. 13, 2003 http://home.att.net/~lewis_linda/index.html "revek" wrote in message ... Lady o' the house generously shared with us this little ditty: Thanks, Peter! I had asked a long time ago if anyone knew how to filter threads from the fat acceptance group, and was told it was a difficult process. Sounds easy enough to me. You asked about filtering *crossposts* --a different beast. -- revek HELP! I'M BEING HELD PRISONER IN A .SIGNATURE FACTORY! |
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Thanks, revek. Now I remember that you were the one who said that it was a
pain to do. I stand corrected! :-) -- Linda 296/203/160 LC since Oct. 13, 2003 http://home.att.net/~lewis_linda/index.html "revek" wrote in message ... Lady o' the house generously shared with us this little ditty: Thanks, Peter! I had asked a long time ago if anyone knew how to filter threads from the fat acceptance group, and was told it was a difficult process. Sounds easy enough to me. You asked about filtering *crossposts* --a different beast. -- revek HELP! I'M BEING HELD PRISONER IN A .SIGNATURE FACTORY! |
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Lady o' the house generously shared with us this little ditty:
Thanks, revek. Now I remember that you were the one who said that it was a pain to do. I stand corrected! :-) S'ok. -- revek "Pinky, are you pondering what *I'm* pondering?" |
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