how to ignore threads in thunderbird

[Eberhard Roloff]

Hi,

I am finding that more often than before, certain threads in this list 
slowly but surely tend to get a "never ending" character, where a rather 
basic question is discussed over and over again. And there apparently is 
no stop, even after numerous solutions have been given.

While this is absolutely OK and most people will surely enjoy, I 
personally sometimes feel, that after a certain amount of time, this 
will inevitably get to my nerves.;-)

So I wanted to ask how to simply ignore threads in Thunderbird. I tried 
but did not find an obvious solution.

I also tried with "Mark this thread as read". It works,  but any time, 
when new messages are flooding in, the thread is reopened, once again.

Luckily Google found the addon "Right Click Watch Ignore" for me.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/3135

It also works when reading the list via gmane.

So I can happily answer my own question.

Highly recommended if you want to ignore threads

Eberhard