steve shelikof wrote: "If you're not familiar with the Kill Thread command that most newsreaders have, it marks an entire thread as read *and* any future message that belong to that thread are marked as read as soon as the header is downloaded. Basically, it lets you go on in blissful ignorance of the existance of a thread of messages that you've decided you're not interested in. I have a hard time imagining it's not a feature of the Mozilla newsreader since it's so common on other newsreaders, but I can't find a way to do it. "

[Resummarizing using 4.x name, for easier Bugzilla searching]

In addition, under the View->Messages menu, there should be an "Ignored Threads" option that controls whether ignored threads are visible. You would have to have "All" and "Ignored" selected to see ignored threads. If "Unread" is selected, messages in ignored threads would not be visible even if "Ignored Threads" is selected because they are marked as read.

Is this the same as <a HREF="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16919">bug 16919</a>, or is that for back-end implementation only?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16919 ***

VERIFIED DUP.