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Ronald E. Foltz said:
hello Antioch. . yes and thank you but how do i "tag" the threads?
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Hi Ronald
Having posted to you some 4 hours ago, I felt sure somebody by now would
have answered - well you caught me with my ...well guard down. Thank god
you are using OE. There may be some very clever ways of doing this or
similar - if there are then they will be posted. You may well be able to
set all this as a default?
You may well be doing this already and you misunderstood what I meant.
Open the newsgroup in which you are interested to read posts etc - right
click on the line containing 'SUBJECT/FROM/SENT' - you get some choices - 2
sorts and one column.
To the left of 'SUBJECT' is where the columns are/will go when selected.
Hope you are still with me.
For my personal use I only have the following boxes ticked -
Flag/watch/subject/from/sent/size - whilst in the choices window put 25 in
the pixel width box.
Click OK.
Now pick any thread at random - with do a left click at the side of the
thread and in line with the pair of spectacles - up should pop a green pair
of specs - if you then click on another thread, the one you just selected
should show in red.
If I reply/respond to a thread with a post of my own I repeat the above left
click in line with the little flag - so the chosen thread should have 2
items selected - a flag and specs.
When I have finished with a thread, one left click gets rid of the flag, but
2 are required to get rid of the specs.
Now the tricky bit - IF you left click on the specs sign in the row next to
Subject once, all disappear - then if you right click again up will come the
choice box again with the 2 sorts and the column. The ascending will be
ticked so left click on the descending - scroll up to the top of the threads
and with any luck you should see you selected threads in red(dark red if
there is an unread reply/post)with the most recent on top. These flagged
threads will all display in a group together at the top.
I hope you can follow this - as you may have noticed, it lacks any techspeak
references to various actions - I wouldn't know the right ones in any case.
I will keep a watch in case you have a problem.
Rgds
Antioch