zxcvbob wrote:
> Jean B. wrote:
>> Susan wrote:
>>> x-no-=archive: yes
>>>
>>> On 11/8/2012 11:41 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>>>> How do I easily delete all the political crap I don't care about? It is
>>>> n ones business who I voted for and I don't care who anyone else voted
>>>> for, either. This is a cooking newsgroup, not alt.politics.
>>>>
>>>> At least with Windows mail I could simply highlight the unwanted
>>>> threads
>>>> and click the DELETE button on the keyboard.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I've tried their unhelpful "help".
>>>>
>>>> OB Food: I'm supposed to go out to dinner tonight as a thank you for
>>>> cat-sitting for my neighbor. We'll see how the restaurant and food is.
>>>>
>>>> Jill
>>>
>>> Right click on the thread header/title, scroll down to "mark" and
>>> choose "thread as read." Each time.
>>>
>>> If you want to deleted posters to those threads, you rt click on
>>> their name/addy and choose "create filter."
>>>
>>> Susan
>>
>> I have only been able to kill what is already downloaded in threads.
>> Is that your experience?
>>
>> Also, my experience is that I have only been able to create filters
>> based on posters if I open the miscreants' posts--which is definitely
>> suboptimal. (Then by clicking "message"-->create filter...) Has
>> T'bird improved on that since I switched to Seamonkey?
>
>
>
> I am using Tbird 2.0.0.23 (it doesn't claim to work with Win7x64 but it
> does.) Use 'k' to kill the threads instead of just marking them read
> and new messages arriving in the same thread will also be marked.
>
> Bob

I will see whether that functions on Seamonkey.