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John Rumm
Flightless Bird
Re: changed subject for experiement on threading orders
On 27/05/2010 17:52, BillW50 wrote:
>>> Well one, the rule isn't always being applied in huge newsgroups. It
>>> is like TB is getting confused. Worse, it is having a problem
>>> reading all of the headers as well. As the status bar instead of
>>> going from left to right is jumping all over the place. This
>>> newsgroup on this server has over 12,000 posts, btw.
>>
>> One thing to watch is that message filters apply to individual groups
>> and not a news server as a whole, so you may need to duplicate some
>> filters between groups.
>
> Oh? Maybe that is where I went wrong. Seemed to work well for the
> newsgroups already there. But new ones later doesn't seem to be working
> correctly. Boy that is a lot of work with lots of newsgroups.
If you call up the list of filters you should see a different list
depending on which group is selected. In TB3 you can use the news server
drop down box to also pick the relevant group - you will note there is a
sub menu that splits out from server.
You can cheat a little if you want some filters duplicated, since all
TBs config files are plain text, you can pop into the News folder in
your profile and you will see a .dat file for each group - so for this
one I have uk.d-i-y.dat and in there are all the filter rules. You can
either copy this whole file to <new_group_name>.dat to duplicate them
for another group or cut'n'past individual rules in a normal text editor.
>>> So maybe people can understand why I don't find TB (or other ones I
>>> have tried) very attractive. As OE6 works well and very quick. And
>>> you can search past read posts very quickly as well.
>>
>> Each to his own I guess.
>
> OE seems so very efficient compared to other programs. As other programs
> seem to make the user go through so much work and it really shouldn't be
> that way.
Oddly I find OE hugely frustrating - it must be it just does not work
the way I think! Probably tells you something about either it or me
--
Cheers,
John.
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On 27/05/2010 17:52, BillW50 wrote:
>>> Well one, the rule isn't always being applied in huge newsgroups. It
>>> is like TB is getting confused. Worse, it is having a problem
>>> reading all of the headers as well. As the status bar instead of
>>> going from left to right is jumping all over the place. This
>>> newsgroup on this server has over 12,000 posts, btw.
>>
>> One thing to watch is that message filters apply to individual groups
>> and not a news server as a whole, so you may need to duplicate some
>> filters between groups.
>
> Oh? Maybe that is where I went wrong. Seemed to work well for the
> newsgroups already there. But new ones later doesn't seem to be working
> correctly. Boy that is a lot of work with lots of newsgroups.
If you call up the list of filters you should see a different list
depending on which group is selected. In TB3 you can use the news server
drop down box to also pick the relevant group - you will note there is a
sub menu that splits out from server.
You can cheat a little if you want some filters duplicated, since all
TBs config files are plain text, you can pop into the News folder in
your profile and you will see a .dat file for each group - so for this
one I have uk.d-i-y.dat and in there are all the filter rules. You can
either copy this whole file to <new_group_name>.dat to duplicate them
for another group or cut'n'past individual rules in a normal text editor.
>>> So maybe people can understand why I don't find TB (or other ones I
>>> have tried) very attractive. As OE6 works well and very quick. And
>>> you can search past read posts very quickly as well.
>>
>> Each to his own I guess.
>
> OE seems so very efficient compared to other programs. As other programs
> seem to make the user go through so much work and it really shouldn't be
> that way.
Oddly I find OE hugely frustrating - it must be it just does not work
the way I think! Probably tells you something about either it or me
--
Cheers,
John.
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