"Stan Starski" <> wrote in message
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> Sometimes I need to save a particular subject/thread from a Newsgroup,
> e.g. this WinVista Support. Maybe I am lazy but to this day haven't
> learned of a way to accomplish it in a single "Save As" action.
> Instead, saving it as message by message - so for a long thread takes
> ages, especially b/c OutlookExpress & now WinMail wouldn't differentiate
> articles under the same subject - they all get assigned the same filename
> which I need to manually modify for each (add a number or something
> different at the end) so they don't overwrite each other.
> So you end up with a bunch of similarly-named files instead of a single
> long file.
>
> Question;
> Is there a shorter way to save a long thread off a Newsgroup, using a
> client e.g. Winmail, OE, Thunderbird, etc. (or Outlook if it does
> newsgroups?).
>
>

I seem to recall that Agent (AFAIR) could do this - it could append messages
to a text file, so that you could add data as and when you required.

> P.S. I was perfectly happy with OE, Vista replaced it with WinMail; but
> don't tell me anything about LiveMail. That joke of a software won't be
> used in a business environment.

And who in their right minds would use OE in a BUSINESS environment anyway?

"Stan Starski" <> wrote in message
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>> And who in their right minds would use OE in a BUSINESS environment
>> anyway?
>
> When I was younger, liked complexities and of course tried to push myself
> thru most complex University in St. Petersburg, Russia. Achieved little.
>
> OutlookExpress was plain, super simple but you know what? It did all I
> needed,

But was (is) notoriously unreliable and would corrupt data very easily.
That's why no-one used it for business. I speak as a recently-retired
Systems accountant....

"Stan Starski" <> wrote in message
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>> Notoriously unreliable and corrupt data?
>
> NEVER happened to me, at least not in version6.

You've been lucky then. Just head over to the OE newsgroups and see the
posts about corrupted data!

> Anyways, suppose OE was bad, OK, but could Microsoft leave Winmail alone
> for God's Sake?

Winmail's pretty awful as well. Windows Live Mail is considerably better
(IMHO) - although I only use it for news reading.
For serious emailing I use either Outlook (on my Windows machine) or Mozilla
Thunderbird (on my Linux machine...)

On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:23:26 -0500, "Stan Starski"
<> wrote:

> You invariably attack people criticizing ANY bit of WindowsVista or its
> applications


You quoted nothing, so I have no idea whom you are addressing and
attacking.


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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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