R.Wieser wrote:
Frank,

Just F[Y]I:

Thunderbird has [snip]

You mentioned OE, and that is what I respond(ed) to.

Yes, I know, but I also mentioned WM/WLM/TB and since I have TB, I
posted some information about it (TB).

And note the, perhaps too subtle, 'F[Y]I'. I.e. it's not directed
towards (only) you.

because John did post a response to the 'unknown'
poster ('Arlen'), but in general, it might be a concern.

Actually ? No.

He responded to Bob_S, as can make out from the part where John specifically
referred to him not having quoted who he responded to - which would have
been Arlen.

Actually? Yes! :-) John posted *several* responses, one was directly
to 'Arlen'. Directly to his OP actually.

Trust me! My newsreader *does* show threads and *does* show parents! :-)

I have no experience with blocking/unblocking in TB and I didn't
see a way while quickly browsing the menus.

I'm using OE6 (hence my knowledge about it), and even I only recently came
to know how to do it (though it was simple in retrospect - you just have to
make a rule first).

Yes, that's what I thought. I've been making rules for *email* since
OE1, but never used OE/WM/WLM/TB for news, because I have a (for me)
better newsreader.

FWIW, in my CUI newsreader 'tin', 'go to parent' overrides
any 'killing', so the newsreader will show the article, even if it
was 'killed' earlier.

FWI, if you block a sender in OE his posts will not even be stored in the
message database. No overriding possible. It even asks if you want to
delete all the senders past messages too. And yes, I do like the "hide
messages of blocked posters" better - for the reason of being able to keep
track of a full thread tree and/or being able to (temporarily) unblock a
person and thereby being able to read his past messages.

Thanks for the info.