Re: Marking Cross-posted messages as Read

Daniel wrote:
> Why back when, maybe Mozilla Suite or even Netscape Suite, it used to be 
> that if you clicked on a message that had been cross-posted to several 
> newsgroups, that message would be marked as read in all those newsgroups 
> that you subscribed to.
> 
> This function hasn't worked for a long, long, time and I miss that 
> function-ability, especially on my UseNet server.
> 
> I had thought that the function could have been done using an 
> "If/Then/Else" type loop working with the information contained in the 
> Xref line of a messages header. Something like ....
> 
> If the Xref line doesn't exist don't do anything special
>      If the Xref line exists then
>          Go through the groups listed in that line and if I don't 
> subscribe to the group, do nothing
>              If I subscribe to those groups, then mark that message 
> number as read in that News Servers ".rc" file group line as Read
>              Done
>          Done
>      Done
> Done
> 
> Today, I've been reading one of the Support newsgroups on the 
> Eternal-September UseNet Server and mention was made that something 
> similar could be done using the information contained in the 
> "Message-ID" line (a line which, I think, SM doesn't handle at all!) in 
> the message header to read "Mark as Read" messages that may have been 
> posted to the same newsgroup but on totally separate News Servers. I 
> don't know how, just mentioning this.
> 
> Reading that thread, however, has prompted me to ask ....
> 
> Is there still work being done on this "Marking Cross-posted messages as 
> Read" function with-in Mozilla/ThunderBird/SeaMonkey or has lack of 
> person-power seen it pretty well been put on the Back-Burner ... or even 
> the Back-Back-Burner??
> 
> There you go .... Bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43278 
> refers.

There is that neat feature in SeaMonkey and Thunderbird where you can 
select the account in the Folder Pane, right-click and select "Mark All 
Folders Read".

They could use it after a user has read a post that is cross-posted and 
is finished with all other messages in that account.
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