Re: Questions RE: Thunderbird

gwtc wrote:

> Stri wrote:
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>>Apolgies if this has hit the wrong newsgroup. I've tried a few others 
>>but not joy in getting my answers.
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>>I have a couple of questions. If you know the answers please help, thanks.
>>
>>* How do I start threads collapsed?
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> Hitting the "\" key will close the threads.  Now close TB and reopen 
> it and they should all remain closed.  Further, the "*" key will open 
> them all.
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>>* Do you know of any plugin/extension which will allow me to highlight a 
>>certain area of text and quote only that in a reply (such as in Gravity 
>>Newsreader?)
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> don't know
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>>* It always shows as "So and so wrote" - I prefer to change that. How?
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> You can change that by reading this: 
> http://ilias.ca/mozilla/mailnewsfaq/Replyintro.html
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> it may say Mozilla, but it works for TB aswell.
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>>I've other questions but can't think of them for the moment. Thanks 
>>again for reading.
>>
BTW, here is a list of newsgroups you should be aware of:

MOZILLA: The Mozilla Suite (Thunderbird and Firefox users, please 
subscribe there!)
news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.support.mozilla-suite

The Seamonkey project (suite continuation)
news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.support.seamonkey

FIREFOX: "Browser only" application.
news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.support.firefox

THUNDERBIRD:  "eMail only" application.
news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.support.thunderbird

All other products
news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.support.general

Other Groups of Interest:
news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.support.webtools
news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.support.accessibility
news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.support.bugzilla
news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.support.calendar
news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.support.camino

FOR TESTING THINGS:
To test anything on your eMailer or Browser (HTML stuff, graphics etc) 
use these Test groups
news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.test

Only group which allows non-plaintext posting
news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.test.multimedia

NETSCAPE 8: (this is a BROWSER ONLY application - no eMail/News)
snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.netscape8.windows

NETSCAPE 7:  NS 7.0 - 7.2
snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.netscape7.windows
snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.netscape7.macintosh
snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.netscape7.unix

NETSCAPE 6:
snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.netscape6.windows
snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.netscape6.macintosh
snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.netscape6.unix

Netscape Communicator: (the NG for Netscape 4.** users)
snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.communicator
snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.communicator.mac
snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.communicator.unix