It would be cool if there was such a feature, which would allow to give a score to some authors for usenet messages. With that, each author has a registered "value", and you can show a score for a thread by adding the negatives and positives scores from each author, avoiding the threads where known trollers have posted many messages. Way to implement that: -on each message, there should be the possibility to right click, and either "lower the score for this author" or "raise the score for this author". -each author has a registered score which shows after of before his name, and a global score for the thread whould be calculated and showed on left side of the thread. With that you can also create filters to hide posts from authors with a bad score, to emphasize authors with a good score, and the same for the threads. KNode has this feature, and i find it pretty cool (but i don't like the way it's implemented in it).

I'm not sure that this is really dependent on newsgroup filters. It seems like a general filtering feature...I can imagine that it could be useful when dealing for mailing lists.

Shouldn't this bug depend on bug 33296 (Add "Rating" attribute to mail msgs & allow filtering it)?

mass re-assign.

sorry for the spam. making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs. filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"

An extension could do much of this through use of a custom column. Since you can sort on custom columns, an extension could compute a score for each message in a newsgroup, and expose that as the column value. Sort by the column, and voila! https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Extensions/Thunderbird/Creating_a_Custom_Column