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[Alma J Wetzker]

Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Sat, May 21, 2005, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> 
>>Rick Sivernell wrote:
>>
>>>Kurt
>>>
>>>  I would if I knew what is going on here. I get 3 post saying my account 
>>>  is to
>>>be disabled for bounced post, but send a reply to stop this I did, I get 
>>>three
>>>more with the same message. I have no idea if post are sent and they 
>>>bounce back,
>>>unless I am informed. I am continually trimming my post.
>>>
>>
>>Rick,
>>
>>I am a neandrathal and read the list chronologically.  When you insert a 
>>post like this, with no context for the response, I usually cannot 
>>figure out what you are talking about.  Can you please include enough of 
>>the original post so that this poor cave man can catch on?
> 
> 
> Even neanderthals can learn.  Click on your Thunderbird's ``View'' menu at
> the top of the screen, then Threads where you can chose to see only unread
> members of a thread or all messages in threads with unread messages.  This
> will organize your messages by thread in chornological order.
> 
> Does Thunderbird have anything analagous to Mutt's ctrl-d to delete all
> messages in a thread?

Thanks Bill, I guess I should say I am a caveman by preference.  I like 
seeing all the new messages at the bottom of the header list.  Having 
enough of the previous messages quoted provides all the context I need 
to follow a conversation.  I flag the messages that contain information 
I will need.  Viewing messages in that fashion provides context for 
other threads that may be taking place at the same time.  My method 
provides me with what I need to keep up with the list.

My personal opinion is that you should not do something just because you 
can.  Select what you need and use only those features.  Don't select 
what you do based on the features provided.  With linux, I get to add 
features, if I want.  I think that is the whole point of the GPL and its 
offspring.

     -- Alma