Synchronization

[Mickey Mouse]

I'm running Vista Premium although my question refers to Windows no matter
what version you're running.
I've wondered for longer than I'd like to remember what Synchronization
means. In my case I'm particularly talking about newsgroups. When I right
click on a subscribed newsgroup in my Windows mail there is an option for
"Synchronization settings" allowing to...
1 Don't Synchronize
2 All Messages
3 New messages only
4 Headers only

Can someone give a good explanation, I'm sure others would also like to
know?

Mickey

 

[Ray Parrish]

I'm running Vista Premium although my question refers to Windows no
matter what version you're running.
I've wondered for longer than I'd like to remember what Synchronization
means. In my case I'm particularly talking about newsgroups. When I
right click on a subscribed newsgroup in my Windows mail there is an
option for "Synchronization settings" allowing to...
1 Don't Synchronize
2 All Messages
3 New messages only
4 Headers only

Can someone give a good explanation, I'm sure others would also like to
know?

Mickey

That's for getting new messages from the newsgroups. Don't Synchronize
means don't ever get the new messages. All Messages will get all
messages in the groups you are subscribed to. New Messages only
synchronizes your email client to the newsgroup for New Messages only
and ignores old messages. Headers only just downloads the headers to the
messages and not the message bodies so it saves space.

Later, Ray Parrish