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Re: Making Communicator 4.5 forget headers ?
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Date: 
Thu, 17 Feb 2000 22:08:02 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Paul Mison writes:
Ray Sanders wrote ages ago, but I've been away:

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 have also tried setting the various newsgroup config parms (something
like 'keep only the most recent [500] articles'), but so far I don't see
how to trigger a mass purge of the older stuff.

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 much
better in 'compish':

feisar[tm]:system folder:Preferences:Netscape • f:News:host-lugnet.com:lugnet.general.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
on my machine.

HTH :: paul



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  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)

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