XNews question

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Chakolate said
Does anybody know if there's a 'ignore thread' command in XNews?

TIA,

Chakolate
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Does anybody know if there's a 'ignore thread' command in XNews?
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Yep. When you have the article up, go to Article->Add to Score File,
and at the very bottom of the window click "Kill entire thread".
 
Does anybody know if there's a 'ignore thread' command in XNews?
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In the scoring dialog (Article | Add to score file) there are radio
buttons at the bottom for 'kill entire thread' and 'kill from here
down'. The latter will kill the current post and any descendents of
it.
 
In the scoring dialog (Article | Add to score file) there are radio
buttons at the bottom for 'kill entire thread' and 'kill from here
down'. The latter will kill the current post and any descendents of
it.
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Thanks to all who replied. I think I tried that button, and found that
it only killed the messages in the thread that were shown in the window.
IOW, if there were more messages in that thread the next day, it wouldn't
kill those.

However, perhaps I wasn't paying close enough attention. I shall try
again.

Chakolate
 
Thanks to all who replied. I think I tried that button, and found
that it only killed the messages in the thread that were shown in
the window. IOW, if there were more messages in that thread the
next day, it wouldn't kill those.

However, perhaps I wasn't paying close enough attention. I shall
try again.
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The posts visible at the time should immediately be marked with a -9999
score, but they won't disappear. If more headers are downloaded, any
in that thread should not appear at all.

(If a thread becomes very long, some clients will drop message-ids from
the References header; this can result in a killed thread popping back
into view.)
 
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