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What do Nettscape's red flags do?

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Larry Gibbs

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Mar 22, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/22/97
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In Netscape news reader, there are red flags and green
rectangles between "sender" and "subject." I know what
the green ones do, but what about the red flags?

Larry

Dill

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Mar 23, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/23/97
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According to the Netscape Handbook (Help | Handbook):
"The Flag icon shows if the message has been marked as noteworthy.
Click the icon to toggle the flag status."

As to what use making a message 'noteworthy' is? Good question. I
suppose it can be used as a placeholder.. If you find a message
interesting and want to reply to it, but would like to finish reading
the rest of the messages in the thread or group first (and there's a LOT
of messages in that thread or group), then you can mark that message
with the red flag, then once you're done simply scroll back up until you
see the easily-recognizable red flag.

Anyone else have a use for it?

--Dill

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ted medin

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Mar 23, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/23/97
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Larry Gibbs wrote:
>
> In Netscape news reader, there are red flags and green
> rectangles between "sender" and "subject." I know what
> the green ones do, but what about the red flags?

Wondered that myself, let me know if you find out. Thanks in advance.

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In Christ's matchless name
73 ted
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David Charlap

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Mar 31, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/31/97
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ted medin <me...@electriciti.com> wrote:
>Larry Gibbs wrote:
>>
>> In Netscape news reader, there are red flags and green
>> rectangles between "sender" and "subject." I know what
>> the green ones do, but what about the red flags?
>
>Wondered that myself, let me know if you find out. Thanks in advance.

They do nothing, but they are persistent. The idea is that you can
flag an article so you can quickly find it at a later date.

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