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  Making Communicator 4.5 forget headers ?
 
Does anyone know how to get Netscape Communicator 4.5 (Macintosh) to forget/expire/whatever the older headers from a newsgroup (such as lugnet.general) ? lugnet.general is getting close to 15K headers and my Mac (233/PPC) is beginning to really (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Making Communicator 4.5 forget headers ?
 
(...) Well, I did try: unsubscribe, quit Communicator, relaunch, then resubscribe. Somehow it kept everything. They were still there. I *might* try deleting lugnet.com, but I want to avoid loosing all the read/unread stats from the other groups. I (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Making Communicator 4.5 forget headers ?
 
(...) Delete the folder and resubscribe? --Todd (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Making Communicator 4.5 forget headers ?
 
Ray Sanders wrote ages ago, but I've been away: (...) Same here. One thing that could possibly work is deleting the lugnet.general.snm (I think) file in the lugnet.com subfolder of the news subfolder of the Netscape user folder (good grief, that's (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Making Communicator 4.5 forget headers ?
 
(...) f:News:host-lugnet.c...eneral.snm (...) How about In the Newsgroup window doing a View | Messages | New. That should only show the new messages and get rid of old, read threads. Paul (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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