Can WLM filter crossposted usenet messages?

I keep on seeing the same messages over and over on different newsgroups. I know Agent can filter these well but I was wondering
how well Windows Live Mail can do it? I've got the View setting to Hide Read Messages. Obviously that doesn't work. Obviously I'm
not going to restart WLM every time I read a group. I expect it not to show mean messages that I just read 20 seconds ago. Just
tried http://help.live.com/
Is it just me or is Microsoft seemingly incapable of creating anything useful in Help?
Over and over I put in things only to have totally unrelated results.
Here I put in this:
filter crossposted usenet
trying to keep the search words to a minimum. This would be a very popular subject for a Usenet program you would think. I get 4
results. None have the slightest to do with crossposting. 3 of the 4 are for email - they have nothing to do with Usenet at all!
The odd thing is this happens over and over again when I consult Microsoft Help for most any Microsoft product. Just totally
unrelated results. One wonders how in the world Bing works. They can design an OS but they sure cannot design a help system to go
along with it. But its bizarre because it works so badly you would think this would be impossible to occur unless they were
purposely trying to somehow make help so opaque you'd be forced to go to your dealer or some professional for help.

 

If a message is truly cross posted (the poster did one message listing
multiple newsgroups), then if you see it in one newsgroup and mark it as
read and have set to hide read messages, then when you go to the next
newsgroup you should not see it. At least that works for me.

If the poster did multi-posting instead (posted the same message
multiple times), WLM will not catch that.

 

is there a rule for hiding cross posted messages? this is a basic rule but i
can't find how to do it.

 

WLM is definitely not catching cross posted messages. I see this over and over. But I bet if I mark it read then restart WLM it
will work on the next few newsgroups. I'll try it later.

 

What sort of Synch options do you have for the newsgroups? Maybe that
has a bearing on it.

 

There's no such rule in WLM.

For me it just happens my having WLM set to hide read messages (View,
Show or Hide) and marking a message as read.

 

Very strange. If I read a cross-posted message, I definitely won't
see it in the other newsgroups it is cross-posted to. (Assuming
you have "Hide read messages" selected.)

 

There are at least two other assumptions being made too:
1. Messages are being marked "read" when they are being
read in the Preview pane. This need not be the case.
In fact, because of a quirk in WLMail regarding its option
Mark messages read after displaying for ___ seconds
I had to abandon use of that option and hence may read
messages more than once via the Reading pane where
they will continue to show as unread until I either mark
them as read or open them in their own message window.
This happens regardless of whether the message is
cross-posted but cross-posting may remind me sooner
that it has only been read using the Reading pane. ; )
2. A person is subscribing to all cross-posted newsgroups
using the same news account. Some people separate
their newsgroups into different accounts and even subscribe
to some using different news clients. For example, I only
subscribe to IE Beta using WLMail and IE General with
OE so I frequently see cross-posted messages twice because
of that but not because either does not support marking
cross-posted messages to accounts subscribed to by the
same news account.

I just thought of a third reason why messages may not be marked
read which is worth mentioning that could conceivably affect
cross-posted messages more than normal. Occasionally it seems
my WLMail index loses writes to it. This happens most frequently
with the last newsgroup I read from. That newsgroup typically
never involves cross-posted messages but if it was I can imagine
seeing the OP's symptom with it too. However, then I think the
reproducing scenario would have to involve opening one newsgroup
at a time and then closing WLMail as quickly as possible.


FYI

Robert
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