Thanks to adding "newsgroups" to the Thunderbird filter (with
customize), this newsgroup sure got a lot better S/N ratio. But I had to
add "talk" to "alt" and "misc".

On 4/16/2010 08:54, Pete Snell wrote:
How did you finally get things to work, Louis?

Pete

Follow this thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.crafts.metalworking/browse_thread/thread/7e634c4213fed3e9/d00d16edc17b8b2f?lnk=raot

In short, with Thunderbird, Tools Message Filters Edit Filter
Rules Add item (use "+" after last filtered item in list), Choose the
filtered item (eg. Subject, From, Body...) scroll down to Customize,
click on it.

Customize Headers pops up. Type "Newsgroups" in the textbox. Hit OK.
Exit Customize Headers, back to Filter Rules. For the new entry, add a
filtered item, select Newsgroups from list, enter part or all of group
(misc or misc.survivalism, for example). Hit OK. You might have to dump
out of Tbird for the new filter to work.

Now if only folks would stop answering cross-posts in this groups, you
wouldn't see any of it. But it IS more focused on metalworking.

My filtered terms under Newsgroups: alt, misc, and talk.

Louis Ohland wrote:
Thanks to adding "newsgroups" to the Thunderbird filter (with
customize), this newsgroup sure got a lot better S/N ratio. But I had to
add "talk" to "alt" and "misc".

Same here. That feature used to not exist, glad it's fixed.

Who was that Cliff character anyway? I vaguely remember.....

RBnDFW wrote:

Who was that Cliff character anyway? I vaguely remember.....

I believe he is a creature of back scatter, sometimes seen in fragments of replied
messages and the likely cause of threads that start with

Wes