Todd Allcock wrote:

> I do most of my Usenet from my WinMo phone running the QMail client- it
> has filters but their implemented awkwardly. First you download the
> messages, then manually apply the filter which then goes through the
> posts and moves all "matching" posts to the trash bin. There may be an
> easier/automatic way, but while the program is in English, the author
> (and all documentation) is Japanese!

The problem with Thunderbird is that there is no way to apply the filter
after the messages are downloaded, so your newsgroup can get cluttered
up with a new thread or poster that you want to filter. Outlook allows
post-download filtering. Thunderbird has it for e-mail, but not for
newsgroups.

Some day we'll live in a world where they're aren't so many obnoxious
jerks like "he who must not be named" and we won't have to deal with all
these filters.