[wishlist] thread scoring rules
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mozilla Thunderbird |
Confirmed
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Unknown
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thunderbird (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Personally I frequently need to watch certain threads on very high volume lists (eg, LKML). This is what I end up doing at the moment:
1. select "threads with unread". Thunderbird tidily folds each thread into a single line. fantastic.
2. scan the ones that are bold (ie, new threads), to see if any of the messages are relevant, or are from authors that I know are working in the same field as myself.
3. flag the threads I want to watch as "important", so that they stand out in red. Possibly hit "R" on the ones I don't care about to mark them as read. ignore the ones that are just underlined - if I didn't care about them the first time around, I won't care about them the next time.
4. read all the messages from the threads in red
5. hit "catchup"
Of course this usage pattern is just begging for a thread scoring system, like emacs' gnus has. ie, setup key words, authors and other rules (such as, threads I've participated in) that increase a thread's score. Then you sort threads by score and ignore the ones that don't make the threshold.
Changed in mozilla-thunderbird: | |
importance: | Medium → Wishlist |
Changed in thunderbird: | |
status: | Unconfirmed → Rejected |
Changed in mozilla-thunderbird: | |
assignee: | torkiano → nobody |
Changed in thunderbird: | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in thunderbird: | |
importance: | Unknown → Wishlist |
Changed in thunderbird: | |
importance: | Wishlist → Unknown |
I'm not sure that this is really dependent on newsgroup filters. It seems like a
general filtering feature...I can imagine that it could be useful when dealing
for mailing lists.