Re: Policy News

[Steven Bellovin <smb () cs columbia edu>]

On Nov 18, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Matthew Dodd wrote:

> I think he meant being able to easily delete an entire thread of emails, like you might be able to if you were using 
> Gmail.

Yup, precisely.

> Sadly I don't know of any feature that does this in Mail.app, but you can always make a Smart Mailbox with the rule 
> Any Recipient : Contains : "nanog () merit edu" and delete things within that mailbox.


Or a rule to at least mark the messages as read.  I can do that -- I do do that, for threads that have gotten too 
annoying for too long, but it takes many mouse clicks to add each new offending subject line.

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb