Ignoring threads in Thunderbird?

[Shawn K. O'Shea]

On 3/28/07, Ted Roche <tedroche at tedroche.com> wrote:
> I've got Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 installed on an FC6 laptop as my primary
> mail client, this week. I'm trying to figure out if there is a feature
> for ignoring threads, and haven't had a lot of luck. Searching for "How
> do I ignore threads?" in the online Thunderbird help isn't helpful.
>
> On the View menu, under the Threads submenu, there's a checkbox for
> "Ignored" - I read that as a binary switch to display or hide threads
> flagged as ignored. However, I haven't found another clue anywhere in
> the UI on how to flag the threads as ignored or not.
>
> Anyone else figured this out?

I was curious since I use Thunderbird. I did some quick googling. I
found this blog post where someone was asking about it
(http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2006/08/23/thunderbird_and_ignore_thread_option)
and a commenter links to a plugin. Apparently from what they say (and
from me trying to use the keyboard shortcuts unsuccessfully) that the
Ignore Thread feature only works for news threads, not e-mail :(

-Shawn