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[Please snip when replying to this posting! - Thank you.]
This message provides information about filtering complete threads of the
Pricelessware 2008 list (hereinafter referred to as PL2008) creation
process. It shall assist people who don't want to read and participate in
the PL2008 process to hide, delete or skip all postings on this matter.
The suggestions can likewise be applied for filtering other recurring
topics, like OT postings, as long as they are tagged as such.
Newsreaders use different methods for filtering. Therefore, the following
information should be regarded as a guideline. Posters with experience in
filtering subjects are encouraged to post follow-ups to this message to
introduce different methods or show filtering tutorials for specific
newsreaders.
Likewise, posters who have difficulties to apply filtering with a specific
newsreader are encouraged to post a question in this thread. I urge both
groups of posters to snip the information not necessary for their respective
points from the message they are following-up to. The information will be
included in reposts of the message you are reading now.
Since some newsreaders can be set to open new thread-chains after a subject
change (or work this way out-of-the-box), modifying the subject line to
show the newsreader, which is discussed in a posting, is discouraged.
Posters looking for information about a specific newsreader should have a
look at the latest huge posting done by me in this thread. If it doesn't
carry the information, skimming through the postings done afterwards is a
good next step. To simplify this task, (temporarily) switching from a
threaded view to one sorted by [Subject and Date] may be a good idea.
Posters, who wish to explicitly declare their non-participation in the
PL2008 process may do so in the "Vote" thread. (Cf. the "Proposal and
General Discussion" thread.) In this case, the filter has to permit to
see at least the initial posting of the "Vote" thread.
BeAr
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40tude Dialog:
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1. Collapse Thread:
Select one of the messages of the thread to be collapsed in the header
pane and choose <Navigate><Collapse Thread> from the menu bar or simply
click the <Left> key.
-> Probably the most basic method. Best combined with selective
download of bodies and [Mark Read (by Scripting)] (see below).
-> Also useful when "Expand threads when skipping to next new article"
from the <Settings><General Settings...><Navigation> menu is switched
*off*. (New messages inside collapsed threads will be ignored when
any /Next unread message key/ like <n> or <Space> is used.)
2. Ignore (Sub-)Thread (by GUI):
Select the topmost message from the (sub-)thread to be ignored in the
header pane and choose <Message><Ignore> from the menu bar or simply
hit the <i> key.
-> All messages in the (sub-)thread are marked as "Read" and therefore
skipped when using any /Next unread message/ key like <n> or <Space>.
/Ignore/ set through the GUI (not by scripting) always works on whole
threads, unless "Watch/Ignore works on subthreads" is set inside the
menu <Settings><General Settings...><Misc>.
-> New messages in ignored (sub-)threads are automatically marked /read/
on header retrieval.
3. Mark Read (by GUI):
Select the headers of the messages that shall be marked as /read/ in
the header pane and choose <Message><Mark Read> from the menu bar.
-> Works on collapsed threads, as well, but doesn't affect future
header retrievals.
-> Best combined with a filtered message view, where only unread message
are visible: <Group><Message views><Unread messages> from menu bar or
<Ctrl>+<F2> key combination. (Hit <Ctrl>+<F1> to see *all* messages,
again.)
4. Filter to hide messages containing [PL2008]:
Above the header pane there is a specific /Sort and Filter/ bar. Tick
the check box before "Filter" and choose "Subject" and "has not" from
the two drop down lists on the right hand side from "Filter". Enter
"[PL2008]" (without quotation marks) in the edit box alongside the
"has not" drop down list and push the button on the outmost right side
of the /Sort and Filter/ bar. (To remove the filter, untick the check
box before "Filter" and push the outmost right button again.)
5. Move messages to a dedicated Folder (by Scripting):
Create a new folder named "PL2008", "Skipped" (or whatever name seems
appropriate) via <Group><Folders><New Folder...> menu and open the
"Scoring and actions" window (<Settings><Scoring and actions...> from
the menu bar). Create a section for acf (if there isn't one, already)
and enter the command for moving PL2008 articles:
[alt.comp.freeware]
!move(PL2008) Subject [PL2008]
The string inside the parentheses is the name of the folder, the string
after the "Subject" identifier is the string to be filtered-on inside
the subject of every message. The square brackets are part of the filter.
More advanced filter strings are possible (containing regular expressions
and the like).
6. Mark Read / Ignore / Set a color / Delete (by Scripting):
Open the "Scoring and actions" window (<Settings><Scoring and actions...>
from the menu bar). Create a section for acf (if there isn't one, already)
and enter the command(s) that should be issued on every PL2008 article:
[alt.comp.freeware]
# Use only *one* of the following 3 lines!
!gnore,markread Subject [PL2008]
!setcolor(red,yellow) Subject [PL2008]
!delete Subject [PL2008]
The action(s) defined after the exclamation mark are applied on all
messages that match the subject filter.
7. Use Scoring:
The following is especially useful if one wishes to skip a certain kind
of messages from the PL2008 threads (like those from specific posters),
but still be able to retrieve them later at will.
Open the "Scoring and actions" window (<Settings><Scoring and actions...>
from the menu bar). Create a section for acf (if there isn't one, already)
and enter the command(s) that should be issued on every PL2008 article:
[alt.comp.freeware]
# Score down all PL2008 threads except the vote thread:
-10 Subject [PL2008] -@Subject:Votes
# Have a closer look at topic drifts (add +10 to the score reached by now):
+10 Subject {was\:}
# Followups to an own posting get always +10 (no matter, what score has been
# achieved up to this point; no further processing occurs). It is necessary
# to have an identifiable Msg-Id domain part for this to work:
=+10 References my.message-id.example
Scoring should be used in combination with an automatism to set a limit
to "Mark articles read if score is smaller than XX" inside the dialog:
<Group><Default Group Options|Selected Group Options><Sorting/Scoring>.
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