Re: OE6 - some problems with news and copy-and-paste

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From: Michael Santovec (michael_santovec_at_prodigy.net)
Date: 10/23/04 

Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:02:50 -0700

1) Until you have actually downloaded the headers in a newsgroup, the number in blue is
just an estimate. Typically it is off by 5 to 10%, but can be substantially more. It's
due to the way news servers number messages.

2) Yes, that annoying bug is still there. 

-- 
Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
"Stephen Howe" <stephenPOINThoweATtns-globalPOINTcom> wrote in message 
news:uW0mSuDuEHA.2820@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> 1)
> ==
> I have setup OE so it sees Microsoft News Server (msnews.microsoft.com) and
> am subscribed to microsoft.public.vc.stl. I see in blue in the left pane 9
> unread messages.
>
> Yet in the top right pane, there are no unread messages.
> Futher, right-clicking on the newsgroup, clicking on "Properties" reveals
> "266 messages, 0 unread".
>
> How do I reset the counts in the left pane so it reflects reality? I have
> tried unsubscribing and resubscribing and also compacting the folder -
> nothing.
>
> 2) Try this
>
> (i) Try composing a news message
> (ii) Click on Format and make sure "Plain Text" is ticked.
> So no variation in fonts, bold, italic should occur
> (iii) Put something in subject line
> (iv) Highlight subject line, right-click and do copy.
> (v) Now paste in body of message. You will find that it is some tiny script.
> It is pasting as if "Rich Text" was the format. Pasting _DOES_NOT_ respect
> format
> (vi) If you now change Format to "Rich Text" then back to "Plain Text", OE
> corrects the problem.
>
> Great eh? This bug has been in every version of OE I have tried.
>
> Stephen Howe
>
>

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