Bruce Hagen wrote:
"DavidW" wrote in message
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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM wrote:
"DavidW" wrote in message
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Hello,
I have rules to flag newsgroup posts from certain people as Ignore,
but I don't want responses to those posts ignored, which is what's
happening now. If an ignored poster starts a thread, every other
post in the thread is ignored. How can I stop this?
Also, what exactly does "Stop processing more rules" mean? I have
it on, on advice, but I don't know why I need it.
Instead of marking the messages as ignored mark them as read.
So you are effectively saying that a killfile is not necessary or
desirable?
Why don't you just KF the people you don't wish to see posts from? If
you don't want to see posts from , create a From rule
that deletes that address and also check Stop processing more rules.
Forget about ignore rules.
Because I occasionally do want to see posts by someone I wat to ignore. Example:
Poster JohnDoe has an annoying style, is too trivial and posts far too much to
put up with his posts, but he's usually on topic. If I delete him I'll still see
replies to him, which is okay, but I might be interested enough in what's said
to want to see the OP now and then, but it's been deleted. I want them marked
Ignored so I can see them if I want, but if I do that all sub-branches are also
marked Ignored when I download the latest posts.
Also, I'm happy to delete spam, but it's possible that a rule I'm using to kill
spam will sometimes inadvertently kill a legitimate poster. Deletion is too
drastic because you can only use it when you're 100% sure you'll never want to
see a post that satisfies the rule, and I would rarely be that sure. Whatever
you do to hide a post should be reversible.