200246 - Print whole Thread

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(MailNews Core :: Printing, enhancement)

Description

[Oliver Putz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030323
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030323

I think an option "print whole thread" for the newsreader would be quite a good
idea.

I dont like reading long texts on the monitor, so i print them. But if I want to
read some discussion in a newsgroup, I have to read it either on my monitor, or
print every post on its own. So a feature where i would just select the main
thread and print the whole discussion would be great. There should perhaps also
be a possibility for not printing the quotes in the newsgroups to save paper and
ink...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Select a news thread (main Thread)
2.Klick on print to print the thread
Actual Results:  
Just the selevted Post ist Printed

Expected Results:  
It should offer a possibility to print the selected Post, or the post and all
the responses to the Post

Comment 1

[Nick Johnston]

At the risk of sounding like an AOLer, I *fully agree* with Oli Putz. I would
absolutely love this feature. It would have been very useful when I was at
university: we used newsgroups extensively, and I often ended up printing each
message within a thread manually.

Really it would have to print them out in a nested, Slashdot-style with
individual messages/articles clearly delimited. IHMO not offering nesting would
be a major limitation. 

I also agree with the comment about removing quotes. It's amazing that in
general, programs offer such poor and wasteful printing support. At least Moz
now supports scaling :-) 

As an aside, are there any programs that can print an entire thread, or I am
going to hack something together with Perl and Net::NNTP? 

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

reopening