On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:15:23 +0100, MSA wrote:
> Anyway, previous to Thunderbird I used Gravity, previous to Gravity I
> was a M$ LookOut user.
>
> My version of Gravity is 1.0 (is it worth updating if there is one?).
>
> Right, my problem...
I persevered with Thunderbird as my newsreader for some time but
unfortunately I found it to be a bit feature poor for news reading. I have
now switched to another free program called 40tude Dialog which I am happy
with. I continue to use Thunderbird as my email client though.
Initially Dialog seemed to lack a 'highlight threads that I am involved
with' feature too but on closer examination this can be implemented using
the scoring feature. I simply set some rules so that it promotes any
message that I have posted to a score of +50. Any message that is a reply
to a message which I wrote gets a +100 added to its score. I then sort all
message threads by average score and then date. This puts the threads with
replies to my messages at the top, threads that simply have a message
authored by me next and then normal threads bellow. There is also a filter
to give any messages sent to more than three groups a -10 score.
As I say, if you do consider switching, give Dialog a search and see what
you think. I'm really happy with it.
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