Re: OE - way to re-dl headers for ngs?

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From: Diane Poremsky [MVP] (info_at_cdolive.com)
Date: 06/17/04 

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:25:18 -0400

1) right click on the newsgroup on the left see and choose properties. the
last tab lets you reset.

2) OE doesn't support this - I move them to a folder in the inbox if I need
to keep them.

There is an outlook express newsgroup buried under internet explorer
newsgroups.. 

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"Bridget" <NoJunk@NoJunkMail.com> wrote in message 
news:OiXUTYKVEHA.2716@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Hi!
>
> I'm new to using OE as a newsreader as I use Agent at home.
>
> Two questions, pls, and I hope that I'm in an okay ng to ask them (?):
>
> 1)  How do we "re-dl" headers?  If I miss a message and then accidentally
> delete it in Agent, I can just have Agent re-dl them.  Does OE do this?
>
> 2)  How can I "lock" messages.  In Agent, I can click on a toolbar icon on
> any threads I want to keep.  Even if I select ALL the msgs in Agent and
> delete - including the locked ones - they don't get deleted because of 
> this
> locking feature.  How do I do this in OE pls?
>
> Darn, there was something else I needed to ask but it slipped my mind.  Oh
> well, it'll come to me.  This sure is easier than Google and certainly 
> much,
> much easier than using the MS site, so I'll be trying to figure my way
> around it.
>
> Thank you.
>
>

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