Re: Problem with Thunderbird holding settings

In article <[email protected]>,
 Reed <[email protected]> wrote:

> New to TB on Mac, ex-NS4.7 on PC user
> 
> Having problem in newsreader of TB getting View/Threads/Threads with 
> Unread setting to hold from one session to next. Resets itself to All. 
> Have 36 NGs I watch. Some hold. Others don't. Unable to see a pattern. 
> Other settings same for all groups (ie Sort Order = Order Received, 
> Messages = All)
> 
> Am I missing something, or what??
> 
> --reed

Yes, my friend.  You ARE "missing something".  That "something" is 
MT-NewsWatcher 3.4 as your newsreader.  Thunderbird, like all Mozilla 
newsreaders, is a very poor application, and it has very poor filtering.

Investigate MT-NewsWatcher 3.4 for Macintosh.  The license is free.

It's configuration is pretty hard to get used to, but will pay dividends 
in the long run.

Also, it has extensive filtering, including the ability to bubble 
"watched" threads to the top of the display, and the ability to weight 
threads using scoring.

The best Windows newsreader is ForteAgent 3.2.  It will do everything 
that MT-NewsWatcher will do, and MUCH more.  However, there is no Mac 
version of this excellent application for PCs, and it appears that Forte 
has no plans for porting it over to the Mac anytime soon; (this is very 
sad, since I am a long-time Agent user, but have switched platforms to 
the Mac).

If you do a lot of binary downloads, I advise you to purchase a license 
for Unison (latest version).  It is an excellent binary downloader, and 
was designed from the ground up for downloading binaries.  Unison is a 
Macintosh application.

-- 
Donald L McDaniel
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