Re: Aug 1st, will it be "E.L.E."?

On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:41:14 -0500, "R. C. White" <> wrote:

>AND I've subscribed to this same NG on my ISP's news server, which I think
>is Giganews. That NG now shows 69,997 messages (back to 5/8/2005), because
>I chose to download "All Messages" one time and patiently waited for hours
>as they were all downloaded via cable. Then I used Catch Up to mark them
>all read. I've read some of the messages received there since then, but not
>all, since I'm also reading them here; I currently show 234 unread in that
>NG.

I could suggest you get a bit more modern newsreader. Forte Agent 6 can do a
"catch-up" without actually downloading anything, and it also can also receive
the headers in compressed form, which makes retrieving a lot of them, very
quick (up to 10 times faster).

jud

Hi, Jud.

Thanks for the tips.

But, unlike many others, I'm actually happy with WLMail - MOSTLY. This new
beta has some quirks that MUST be worked out before RTW! In the early 90's,
I tried a dozen or more ways to access NGs, BBSes, CompuServe and other
online services. When OE appeared, I could - for the first time - access
all my email servers with a single phone call on my dial-up modem. That
felt so good that I soon abandoned Pegasus, GEnie, Netscape Communicator and
all the others and have used only OE/WM/WLM since then. I know the others
are out there, and I hear many MVPs and other recommend them highly, but I'm
just not in the mood to leave my "rocking chair" so long as WLM does what I
want it to do. ;^}

And, since adding this 1 TB HDD last year, I once more have "more disk space
than I'll ever need", just like I did when I got that humongous 20 MB drive
several years ago. :^{

I intentionally downloaded all those 70,000 messages because I want to keep
their full texts here on my hard disk. Why? Because I'm a packrat, I
suppose. But this has been a most-informative NG and I'd hate to lose the
store of data, even if I never need it.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2010 (15.3.2804.0607) in Win7 Ultimate x64)


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On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:41:14 -0500, "R. C. White" <> wrote:

>AND I've subscribed to this same NG on my ISP's news server, which I think
>is Giganews. That NG now shows 69,997 messages (back to 5/8/2005), because
>I chose to download "All Messages" one time and patiently waited for hours
>as they were all downloaded via cable. Then I used Catch Up to mark them
>all read. I've read some of the messages received there since then, but
>not
>all, since I'm also reading them here; I currently show 234 unread in that
>NG.

I could suggest you get a bit more modern newsreader. Forte Agent 6 can do a
"catch-up" without actually downloading anything, and it also can also
receive
the headers in compressed form, which makes retrieving a lot of them, very
quick (up to 10 times faster).

jud