"Skwala" wrote in message
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"Daniel-San" (Rot13) wrote in message
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"Joe McIntosh" wrote ...

Any suggestions of a method of deleting all Roff mess without wiping
out other newsgroups? I use AT&T world



If your OE is set up like mine, on the left side, you'll have the "local
folders" and the news group folders. Right click on the newsgroup name,
and click properties. Up top, click on "local file." You have four
choices: Compact, which OE does every now and then on it's own; Remove,
Delete, and Reset, all with the various descriptions. Personally, I tend
to reset the various groups every now and then, but I'm not really sure
why; just a habit, I guess.

A suggestion: Before you spend too much time deleting headers, resetting
groups, and such, have a look at this program:
http://www.oehelp.com/oebackup/default.aspx

Scroll down a little to get to the downloads. Works well, and you can't
beat the price.

OE has a lot of problems, and maybe switching to Agent or Xnews or the
like would make sense, but I guess I'm a creature of habit...

Dan


Alternatively, you could click on "View" in your top tool bar, select
"Current View", then "Hide Read Messages".

Once this is done, and while in a news group, Go back to the top tool bar,
select "Edit", then "Mark All Read".

The downloaded messages and headers will still be there, but you won't be
seeing them, unless you want to.

Skwala


Other things to try:
What I do is read only the subjects you want in ROFF, then in the files
folder, right click on the newsgroup, in this case
"rec.outdoors.fishing.fly". Click on "Catch Up" it automatically marks
everything in ROFF as has been read. Then as Skwala says, go to "Views"
"Current Views" and "Hide Read Messages" This will now be your default, so
all you have to do is Click on "Catch Up" after you read the what you wanted
in ROFF. All you will now see is current new posts in ROFF.
fwiw,
-tom