On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:38:58 GMT, (Doug Miller)
wrote:



This can be done in newsreaders (or proxies) that support filtering on the
References: header. Find the Message-ID: of the first post of the subthread
(the one by "numbnuts"), then filter anything that includes that value in the
References: header. I don't know if Agent does this or not. The Nfilter proxy
(also known as NewsProxy) will do this. http://www.nfilter.org

See my followup post to this one for example.

Looking at the headers for my reply [above], we see, among other things:

References:
Message-ID:

The second one is the message-ID of my reply. The first one is the message-ID
of your original post.

If you filter out anything containing

in either the References: or the Message-ID: header, you won't see my reply or
any of the followups to it.


Thanks Doug, I'm getting a better idea of the use of more advanced
filters now. As it turns out, though, when I click on "Ignore this
thread" (or just "I") in the middle of a long discussion, Agent
informs me that it will just ignore the sub-thread, exactly like I
wanted! This will be great for some of the other NGs that I read,
where the readers show less restraint even than those here. g

Now if I can just figure out how to get the message body to open in a
new window (as a default), without having to do any extra clicking on
window icons. Thunderbird defaults to the 3 pane display, but if I
drag the middle border down (which closes off the message body), it
defaults to opening the message in a new window. That way, I get to
see more of the thread view, which helps me to decide how I want to
proceed.

Joe