"Catch Up" news groups

[chchen_2000_2000]

When I Right Click on a news group, it shows an "Catch Up" row, what does it
mean?
Thank You!

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

From Outlook Express help:

" To mark all messages in a selected newsgroup as read, including messages
not yet downloaded, select the newsgroup in the Folders list. On the Edit
menu, click Catch Up.
This is handy, for example, when you return from vacation and don't want to
download all unread messages, but want to start reading the current ones. "

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Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
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Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program
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When I Right Click on a news group, it shows an "Catch Up" row, what does it
mean?
Thank You!

 

[anonymous]

does this download the messages to the users computer and
therefore take up computer memory space? if there are
1000 messages in the group and each 1kb that would be 1
meg of memory lost to messages. not much but could be a
lot if 10-20 groups are downloaded.

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

It marks everything up to that moment as read, even if it has not yet been
downloaded

--
Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

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does this download the messages to the users computer and
therefore take up computer memory space? if there are
1000 messages in the group and each 1kb that would be 1
meg of memory lost to messages. not much but could be a
lot if 10-20 groups are downloaded.