How to Delete posts

[MyPC]

How do you delete old posts that are a few weeks old? Some have answers to
the questions asked and how long do they stay up if you can't delete them?
Thank You if you can help me on this.

 

[Bob I]

That would depend on the newsreader you were using and how you set the
preferences. Click on Help in your newsreader.

 

[T. Waters]

How do you delete old posts that are a few weeks old? Some have
answers to the questions asked and how long do they stay up if you
can't delete them? Thank You if you can help me on this.

You can either highlight many posts and click on Delete, or you can set the
posts to self-delete after a certain time.
Self-delete in Outlook Express:
Tools
Options
Maintenance tab
"Delete news messages _ days after being downloaded."

 

[Dave Patrick]

Create a rule something like this.

Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the message was sent more than 30 days ago
Delete it
and Stop processing more rules

Tools|Message Rules|News

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"MyPC"wrote:
| How do you delete old posts that are a few weeks old? Some have answers to
| the questions asked and how long do they stay up if you can't delete them?
| Thank You if you can help me on this.
|
|

 

[Bruce Hagen]

How do you delete old posts that are a few weeks old? Some
have answers to the questions asked and how long do they
stay up if you can't delete them? Thank You if you can help
me on this.

There are many options.

You can create a message such as this:

Tools>Message Rules>News.

Box 1: Where the message was sent more than days ago
Box 2: Delete it
Box 3: Click on "Days" and choose the # of days you want.
Name the rule.

*NOTE* This will not delete messages automatically. You have
to go to Tools>Message
Rules>News, and click Apply Now when you want to do this.
Also, you will be given a choice of which newsgroup to delete
from after you click Apply Now.

If you want to delete a selection of messages, but not the
first or last, click on the last message you want to delete,
scroll up as far as you want to delete messages, hold down
the Shift key and click on that message. This will highlight
the messages in blue. Hit the Delete key.

If you want to delete every message after a certain one,
click on the newest message you want deleted. Hold Ctrl+Shift
and tap the End key, then Delete.

If you want to delete all messages in a newsgroup, highlight
any message - Hold Ctrl & A and tap Delete.

Any way you do it, follow up by compacting all your folders
*manually* while working offline, and in Outlook Express at
the top of the Folder Tree.

File>Work Offline (or double click Working Online in the
Status Bar).
File>Folder>Compact all folders.

In Tools>Options>Maintenance: Uncheck: Compact messages in
background. {N/A if running XP-SP2}.

Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - (IE/OE)
~IB-CA~

 

[Bruce Hagen]

You can either highlight many posts and click on Delete, or
you can set the
posts to self-delete after a certain time.
Self-delete in Outlook Express:
Tools
Options
Maintenance tab
"Delete news messages _ days after being downloaded."

Your second choice doesn't remove the messahe headers.

 

[T. Waters]

Your second choice doesn't remove the messahe headers.

You are right!
Message Rules rule.

 

[PA Bear]

See http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm#cleannews
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OE6-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE) & Security, AH-VSOP

 

[Andrew Murray]

select them and press DEL then "empty trash" or whatever your news reader
equivalent is. (assuming you're using a newsreader and not the web interface
to read this NG.

 

[Darrell S]

You can't delete posts in a newsgroup. If you could, other people couldn't
see them. What you can do though, is click on View... Current View.... and
click on Hide Read Messages. Each time you go through a newsgroup's
messages, before you leave click on Edit.... Mark All Read. That will mark
everything as Read so (with your setup to Hide Read Messages) they won't
show again.

Note to make marking them All Read a little easier your can use ctrl-shift-a
or put a "Mark All" icon on your Toolbar. That's the easiest way. Click
on View... Layout...make sure Toolbar has a checkmark in the box before
it... click on Customize Toolbar...now add Mark All. When I'm finished with
a newsgroup I just click on Mark All before I leave. Next time I open the
newsgroup only new unread messages will show.

If, for some reason, you want to see posts that don't show because they've
been marked as read, you can click on View...Current View... and click on
Show All Messages. Now even previously read posts will show. Before you
leave select Hide Read Messages again.

 

[Darrell S]

One additional item. After you click on Mark All, be patient and wait. It
takes a little while to mark everything as read if there are a lot of posts.

 

[Gordon]

You can't delete posts in a newsgroup.

Not on the *server* no, unless they are your posts. But you CAN delete them
locally. In the latest flavour of OE for example, just hightlight the post
and press "delete". Hey presto, it's gone!

 

[PA Bear]

Try CTRL+SHIFT+A instead.
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OE6-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE) & Security, AH-VSOP

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