Jeff-Relf.Me wrote:
P.S. In Thunderbird, select the message
of the person you want to kill file.

Go to "Message", "Create Filter From Message"
and choose "Delete Message" (the default).

P.P.S. Your server, "Eternal-September.ORG"
censors my (HTML) posts.

Please, if you want to converse with me,
sign up with this server:

Usenet.BlueWorldHosting.COM
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Unlike Pan, Mozilla Thunderbird knows HTML.

Unlike Pan, Thunderbird consists of

1) Mostly Firefox files. It's a browser that's
being abused to build an email tool. If you
download the tarball, there is even a build
option to have it built as "browser". Presumably,
that's part of their testing process (early
Firefox source importation).

2) The amount of code to do email is consequently,
not a significant part of the design.

3) The USENET code is actually imported from
Netscape Communicator. The routine names in
the source, begin with "ns_". So the code was
not written from scratch.

The reason the tool "knows HTML", is it's
a freakin browser underneath. Most of the
code is a browser.

It was never "purpose built" with "high ideals".

It's like a browser plus some scripts.

If you've ever used Thunderbird, and
the GUI disappears, the entire window turns yellow,
and some black text error message appears saying
"XML parsing error", that's when you learn
what you're really playing with. The GUI can disappear,
because it's not really GUI code.

I wouldn't use Thunderbird as an example of
anything, really. It's a testament to perseverance.
As every time they import the Firefox source, and
make their next version of Thunderbird, most of
their time would be spent getting the details right
on "what broke this time". There wouldn't really
be time to write more or better email code.
Or be in a rush to fix the bugs in the Netscape
Communicator USENET code (crossposting bug).

Paul