technical Roff surprize

"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


Not sure what the goal is here, but if he doesn't want to see a certain
person's posts, just highlight the subject lines and hit Delete. They will
not be downloaded again. If you highlight the first message in a thread
which is collapsed, it'll take the whole thread with it (usually).