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OT- Instructions on How to ignore and Hide these unwanted cross-posted messages in Outlook Express
Marengo I followed your steps to the letter but I still get Andrew Chung
stuff and How to become a Christian stuff. Darn! I have W98 and you gave clear directions, but I can't do it for some cottonpickin reason. Jackie "marengo" wrote in message ... Dr. Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD wrote: cross-posted stuff snipped Dr. Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD crossposted: snip -------------------------------- With one click you can make entire threads such as this disappear. If enough people do this maybe the stupid cross-posters will get bored with spamming themselves. It's not only possible but easy to ignore and hide an entire conversation (thread). It's a simple two-step process: 1. First you have to set up a view definition to hide ignored messages, then 2. when you're scanning posts you can simply highlight the original post in the thread you want to ignore. Then click on the toolbar: "MessageIgnore Conversation" Voila! The offending 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 (e.g., "Hide Ignored Messages") and then click OK. ---------------- Once this is activated, when you first click on "Ignore Conversation" 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. -- Peter |
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