** Changed in: thunderbird Importance: Wishlist => Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/38988
Title: [wishlist] thread scoring rules Status in Mozilla Thunderbird: Confirmed Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu: Invalid 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/38988/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
