[mdlug] Are there any clients that support sub-thread blocking?

[Rich Clark <rrclark@rrclark.net>]

On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Clinton V. Weiss wrote:

> The IR jamming topic was fascinating - the discussion of how it might
> be implemented and what effects it has on consumer gadgets was very
> interesting.  It has since turned into a political discussion.  Since
> the subject quite clearly says the topic is OT, I can't simply ask you
> guys to take the discussion elsewhere.
>
> This got me thinking, and that got me searching. Are there any clients
> and/or plugins that allow ignoring sub-threads?  Not the whole thread,
> just a certain root message and all threads below that root message.
> My searching got no where, and I'm not in inclined to write a new
> client and/or plugin that supports this idea.
>
> Does anyone know of or use a client and/or plugin that supports this
> idea?  I imagine it would see some decent use in mailing lists
> everywhere.

Best luck I've had is to solve it at the procmail level. Create a 
.procmailrc file in your home directory. An entry like so should take care 
of the problem of OT messages, as long as the original writer obeys the 
undocumented convention in crafting the subject line:

:0:
* ^Subject:.*\[mdlug\]\ OT
$HOME/Mail/mail/MDLUG-OT

The end result is OT messages should be filtered to Mail/mail/MDLUG-OT/ 
subdirectory under your home directory.