257505 - "add to Killfile" button

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 10097

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Robert Harvey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 0.7.1 (20040626)

I would like to see a simple mechanism for creating usenet filters, a sort of
"add to killfile" button.

It should throw up a dialogue that gives you the option to create a filter based on
* from header
* reply-to header
* posting host


In addition, I would like to see filters based on limits to cross-posting, or
for messages whose follow-up is not the same as the posted groups.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Frankie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 11306 ***

Comment 2

[Frankie]

whoops, mistyped the bug number.

Comment 3

[Frankie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 11036 ***

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 285900 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Bernhard Rohrer]

I don't agree that this is a duplicate of 11036 - that one talks about the
bayesian filters. this is about a different option. and the bayesian filters
only really handle spam and don't work for usenet.

Comment 6

[Robert Harvey]

I agree with Comment #5 - I originally raised this for improvements to the
message filtering, e.g. killfiles, for usenet messages.  As far as I know the
baysien filters don't apply to usenet articles at all.

The usenet filters are still extremely poor compared with venerable products
like agent and turnpike

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 8

[Robert Harvey]

As to auto-resolution, I do not think it appropriate.  The behaviour is
absolutely unchanged in the latest versions, and if you read the contexts you
will see that it was confirmed by more than one person at the time.

If you don't intend to fix it, then fine.  Just say so.
I have stopped using firefox for newsgroup reading, not because it is not very
good - it is - but because there are better products with more sophisticated
killfile systems.

Comment 9

[Bernhard Rohrer]

I agree

I had a feeling of not being understood, when this was closed. The bayesian
filters are a) not active for newsgroup reading, b) totally unsuited, as i
cannot specifically ignore one person. And no, the rules don't cute the mustard
either.

Comment 10

[Robert Harvey]

This is /not/ a duplicate of Bug 16913.  Bug 16913 has a different scope - it
wants to filter on header lines.  I wanted to do that too.  I also wanted to
filter on posting name, number of crossposts, regexes in subject and reply
headers.  It isn't a duplicate of bug 11036, although that is similar, and it
isn't a duplicate of bug 34973 either.  

But in the end these are all saying the same thing.  We need a filtering
mechanism, or mechanisms, for usenet reading.  (Actually I don't any more.  I've
stopped using Thunderbird for newsgroups a long time ago)

Comment 11

[Robert Harvey]

Has this been addressed for 1.5?

Comment 12

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Isn't this a duplicate of bug 10097?

Would an offer of a couple hundred $$$ USD to the committer of this feature
help move it along?

Comment 13

[Ray Booysen]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 10097 ***