Re: [boost] Re: Proper threading (Was: Formal review of "Output Forma tters" library beginstoday )

From: Brian Riis (brian_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-02 06:39:32

Reece Dunn wrote:
> Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
> 
>> "Stefan Slapeta" <stefan_nospam__at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
>> news:cjkj7t$a8u$2_at_sea.gmane.org...
>> 
>>> John Torjo wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Mozilla Thunderbird really rocks! I really recommend it.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I can just second that! I've been using it for a long time now
>>> since they released the first betas.
>> 
>> 
>> Last time I used Mozilla for reading newsgroups (over a year ago)
>> if found that it would frequently report a particular numbers of
>> messages as unread (the number would appear in parantheses after
>> the newsgroup name) but no messages in my inbox would by marked as
>> unread. I could never tell whether the reported number of unread
>> messages was an error, or if there really were some unread messages
>> getting lost. So I switched to Outlook.
>> 
>> Does Thunderbird use the same code as the Mozilla browser's news
>> and email client? If so, do you know if this problem has been
>> fixed?
> 
> 
> I am not sure about the code base it uses, but it appears to report
> the correct number of messages in the Inbox (and the subfolders I
> have created for the various Boost threads, using the Filters feature
> which rocks!) So maybe they have fixed the problem you experienced
> :).
> 

Unfortunately, no. I've experienced the exact same problem with
ThunderBird 0.8. In the end, the only resolution was to resubscribe to
the newsgroup. Don't know how the problem started, but apparently it's
not a new thing.

> Regards, Reece
> 
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  /Brian Riis