Viewing answers to one's nntp posts in Thunderbird

[Sam Varshavchik]

Ed Greshko writes:

> gilpel at altern.org wrote:
>>> gilpel at altern.org wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Is it possible to only view answers to one's usenet posts in
>>>> Thunderbird,
>>>> and those of a few other posters, if possible.
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> To address the first part of your question...
>>>
>>> If you want to exclusively view only answers to your posts the answer is
>>> "not really".  However, what is wrong with choosing "Click to display
>>> message threads".  If you are the OP then any response to your message
>>> will appear under it.
>>>     
>>
>> "If" you are the OP, you will see the messages of all the people who
>> answered the people, etc. who answered your post until it has nothing to
>> do with your post.
>>
>>   
> There is no way to programatically solve that problem....

Well, there is a way, that seems to work fairly well. I do this in Cone: 
the thread gets highlighted for up to five chained replies, for up to 14 
days after the original message. Although these parameters are adjustable, 
in practice I've never had the need to tweak them. They seem to work fairly 
well.

To clarify this: all replies to the original post are considered 1st level 
replies. Replies to those messages are 2nd level replies. Cone highlights 
all messages up to the 5th level of replies, for up to 14 days after the 
original message. Messages beyond the 14 days are not highlighted, no matter 
what level of reply they are.

Furthermore, the messages on the last, 5th level are highlighted 
differently, and it's a visual cue -- if you want to continue to monitoring, 
you can reset the thread watch starting from that message anew.

Plus, Cone has rudimentary per-folder filters, so for selected mail folders 
or Usenet groups, I can set up a filter to start watching my own messages, 
and never miss a reply to my own messages, and the resulting threads.

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