[Pan-users] Re: What have I done?? SOLVED, I *think*, at last

[BeartoothHOS]

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:47:00 +0000, Jim Henderson wrote:
        [....]
> Another option would be to go to the "View" menu and select "Header
> Pane", then select the options to view all articles.  Pick one that's
> showing as ignored and right click in the header pane and select "Edit
> Article's Watch/Ignore/Score" - you should be able to remove the bad
> rule from there and IIRC the change will apply across all articles.

        First of all, profuse apologies for taking so long! Life has been 
difficult in various ways, electronic and otherwise -- and only now do I 
have a result worth reporting, or at least I hope it is.

        A day or three after I first posted, I read all the followups, 
went back to va.forsale, and tried to apply them -- stupidly somehow, I'm 
sure.

        Today, at last, I took it from the top again. I did all and only 
what the first paragraph above prescribes, or what appeared to be that -- 
after having called, as suggested, for *all* headers. (Nothing else got 
any.)

        Sure enough, there were nearly 5K of them, all without exception 
marked ignore. I started with the first, hit Remove, and then Close and 
Rescore. That un-ignored a bunch.

        I repeated the exercise, with each new ignored article, till none 
were left ignored.

        Now I can start over, trying to craft rules that are less 
Draconian, but still useful -- such as Ignore Thread. 

        Any helpful hints? I do need to get reasonably skilled at this -- 
if only because I'm trying to dip into rec.food.cooking again ...

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Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.