John Smith wrote:

I use thunderbird with "right click ignore", to ignore whole threads.
Plus, if you filter on address, etc. you get rid of the "dummies."

Take a look at rec.aquaria.marine.reefs. Last time I checked, there was some
bozo with one of those random message & address generators putting out several
hundred messages a day, plus at least one other guy posting profane insults
using other people's return adresses. Perhaps you've figured out how to get
T-bird to do some things that I can't get it to do, but I found no way to filter
out the random messages (filtering on an IP address is the only thing I could
think of). And one could get fired or sued for some of the things the other guy
was posting. It would take a long time to prove that you didn't do it (if you
even could).

George Patterson
Decisions are made by people who have time, not by people who have talent.
Talented people are too busy fixing problems created by people who make
decisions.