Re: [Pan-users] Are kill-filed messages shown as non read messages?

[Bob]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 02:54:33 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> Bob wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 02:09:12 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> 
>>> Bob wrote:
>>>> Was going through my groups this morning and noticed no recent
>>>> activity in this group, so I marked all as read, and then marked all
>>>> threads as read.
>>>>
>>>> I moved to another group to do the same, and noticed that I still had
>>>> 58 messages marked as unread in the group I had just marked as all
>>>> read.
>>> If they're kill-filed, they're hardly read, are they?
>> 
>> No, they aren't read, but they then should not show up if they are
>> killed as they are not available for reading.
> 
> Actually they are. Kill-filed posts are just filtered. If you go to
> View:Header Pane menu, you will see the very last entry is "Match scores
> of -9999 (ignored)". If you select that, the kill-filed posts will
> appear.

Thanks Steven.

That helps greatly.  Set the view to show the kill-filed messages from
a certain user, then searched by user name and then deleted them.
that took alt.os.linux.ubuntu from 450 unread posts down to 52.  On
alt.os.linux.mint from 52 down to 10.  I feel much better now.

ha ha ha

Bob