Identifying messages in a thread (was: Please keep the full address)

[Carl Banks]

On Mar 5, 8:11 pm, "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <da... at druid.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:36:29 +1100
>
> Ben Finney <bignose+hates-s... at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> > > Those of us who identify the time wasters would also like to drop
> > > the responses to their posts and changing the address makes this
> > > impossible.
>
> > Not at all. AFAIK the messages from Google mail correctly include the
> > 'In-Reply-To' field or the 'References' field in the message header.
> > So, you can know by those fields whether a message is part of a thread
> > you've previously identified.
>
> I don't want to have to tag every thread.  I just want to *plonk*
> certain posters.
>
> Anyway, I'll live with Google's failings I guess.

Sounds like you need better filtering.

A decent news filter should be able not only kill a poster, but also
all followups to that poster recursively.

(No, I don't know of any that do that either.)


Carl Banks