Re: newsgroup headers
- From: "Michael Santovec" <michael_santovec@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:18:54 -0700
OE can't display a message until it's been downloaded into it's local
DBX file.
If you just downloaded headers, then click on a header while online, OE
downloads the message body and stores it. Then displays it. When you
then go offline, that message body is still there until either you tell
OE to delete it or OE deletes it because the server has.
I'm not sure how you are deleting the messages. If you mean via the
Tools, Options, Maintenance, note that the option says to delete read
message BODIES. That setting doesn't affect headers.
Different news readers handle things differently.
OE is a caching news reader. Everything that it has on your PC for news
messages is temporary for performance and offline reading convenience.
OE does not keep message longer than the news server. If you want to
keep a news message longer than the news server, you must copy it to a
local folder before the server deletes it.
Some news readers keep messages forever (until you explicitly delete
them by rule or manually), just as OE does with E-mail.
Other news readers are online only. You can only read messages while
online and the news reader only keeps track of what newsgroups you are
subscribed to and which messages are read.
--
Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
"Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:urO4Y9ufHHA.4636@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I am confused. When I am subscribed to a newsgroup in OE and I
download headers, what is actually downloaded to my PC's HD?
I ask because I normally download just headers. But, when I read a
message online, it then remains available to me to read offline,
implying that the actual message has then been downloaded to my PC.
Yet OE allows me to "delete" (they become no longer available) both
unread "headers" and read headers. It makes no difference between the
two. What is actually deleted in those actions? What is downloaded
with just the header.
I was recently using a friend's PC who uses Thunderbird and apparently
in TB it is not possible to "delete" newsgroup messages within TB's
screen. That got me thinking. TB seems to handle newsgroups
differently than OE that I am accustomed to.
Jeff
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