Re: Thunderbird - Not So Much for This Group

[Bob La Londe <none@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/14/2018 3:02 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
> On 1/14/2018 4:32 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>> On 1/14/2018 2:30 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
>>> On 1/14/2018 3:51 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>> On 1/14/2018 7:56 AM, ABLE1 wrote:
>>>>> On 1/13/2018 8:53 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>>>> I'm finally starting to get a little like for Thunderbird as an
>>>>>> email client and news reader.  It has its issues and its still a
>>>>>> lumbering process to block a single user, but for Usenet I can
>>>>>> just hit one key and a thread just disappears.  Over on RCM I can
>>>>>> selected a dozen political threads, and hit the kill key and they
>>>>>> are completely ignored. Â Â The next time I visit the group they
>>>>>> don't even show up.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Geewhiz Bob, I have not found that "one key".
>>>>>
>>>>> Please advise!!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> K.  Highlight the unwanted threads and hit the K key.  They all get
>>>> marked ignore,and on the next visit they don't show at all.
>>>
>>> So I have to acknowledge that they actually exist by highlighting and
>>> then hit the K.  Is the a upper K or a lower k key??
>>>
>>> Just kidding Bob, I have been using Thunderbird ever since Outlook
>>> Express went into the history books and never knew that.  Thanks!!
>>> Give yourself a attaboy or gold star or what ever trips your trigger.
>>> You helped a old man cross the street today.
>>>
>>> So, if I accidentally use the magic K on one of your posting and I
>>> want to undo the dastardly whoops, what is the reverse engineering
>>> trick??
>>>
>>> Thanks again!!  I will try to use wisely.
>>>
>>> Les
>>>
>>
>>
>> View >> Threads >> Ignored Threads
>>
>
> Thanks Bob,
>
> There is lot of stuff in T-bird that I will never know about or even
> use.  It has a lot of features.  There are a few things that I wish it
> did have.  Such as what Rocky said about "joining multi part images
> together."Â Â  I have heard about add-ons but that just makes things more
> complicated sometimes.
>
> Again that for the tip.  Have a good week.
>
> Les
>
>

I've long since lost interest in assembling multi part binaries from
newsgroups, but I do remember the day...