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    Thread Marking, news-by-mail? —Richard Franks
    As I don't read every message in LUGNET, there are sometimes interesting threads in groups that I don't check regularly and I miss out because of that. I imagine that building a web-interface mechanism for tracking individual threads would be heavy (...) (25 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Thread Marking, news-by-mail? —Matthew Miller
   (...) Sure. Sign up to get a newsgroup by mail, and then use your e-mail program's filtering mechanism to zap everything but the threads you want. (25 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Thread Marking, news-by-mail? —Richard Franks
   (...) Yahoo isn't that smart, it's only got 3megs of space and setting up individual filters for each thread is much harder than clicking a "subscribe to thread" button on the web-interface. But yeah - I could do that if I wasn't so lazy :) Richard (25 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 

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