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John A Grandy

What does the command "catch up" do ? After I apply it, I notice that all
of my newsgroup message headers are not longer in bold -- as if I had read
them -- which is not desirable.
 
John A Grandy said:
What does the command "catch up" do ? After I apply it, I notice that all
of my newsgroup message headers are not longer in bold -- as if I had read
them -- which is not desirable.
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It marks all messages as read, even those still on the server.
 
Not at all. Sometimes I want to join a new newsgroup but I don't have
time to read all the existing (older) messages, so that is where Catch Up
comes in.

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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (WLMail)


John A Grandy said:
That sounds completely useless to me.
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Not sure I get it. If you didn't read them, why would you want to mark them
as read ? So that you know which messages are new ?


Gary VanderMolen said:
Not at all. Sometimes I want to join a new newsgroup but I don't have
time to read all the existing (older) messages, so that is where Catch Up
comes in.
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Yes, and then by selecting "Hide Read Messages" I no longer have to
stare at thousands of old posts that I have no time to read.
 
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