opera.mail+news
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: Getting more news messages

Subject: Re: Getting more news messages
From: "Ian Wilson" <igw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:11:43 +0100
Newsgroups: opera.mail+news


On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:19:16 +0100, David W. Hodgins <dwhodgins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:19:50 -0400, Ian Wilson <igw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks for this. So there is no easy equivalent of what you get in Outlook
Express (where on the Tools menu there is a command that says "get next
300 headers")?

Sort of, but as far as I know, the dialog only opens, if you try to get new headers, and the number of headers available exceeds what you last selected
as the maximum to download (default 250), for newsgroups on that account.

There is no gui way (that I know of), to force the dialog to open. Forcing it to open requires editing the .newsrc file, or figuring out which incoming##.txt
file is used for that account, and editing that.

Btw. Please use reply, not reply all, when replying to usenet articles. The
headers of your reply include
To: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
which is forwarded to a spamtrap for uceprotect.

Due to spammers/worms harvesting email addresses from usenet articles, it isn't a good idea anymore to post using real email addresses, or include recipients email addresses in article headers. See my sig, for how to alter the email
address, if you really do want to contact me by email.

I delete the reply all button from my messages view toolbar.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

Thanks for the advice, David. I'm new to using Opera for newsgroups, having previously used Outlook Express. OE has the choice of Reply (i.e. reply to sender) or Reply grup for Reply to the group. I assumed that Reply All was the equivalent of Reply Group, wrongly it would seem.

Ian


--
Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>