Newsgroups - Deletion of previous messages

[Tom Berry]

I have having a problem deleting previous downloads from newsgroups on my
new Vista computer. I have used: Tools>Options>Advanced>Maintenance>Clean
Up Now and pressed the buttons for all 3 functions: Remove Messages, Delete,
and Reset. Even so, when I sign back on to a newsgroup I accessed
previously, the previous messages are all there. What am I doing wrong?

Any help would me appreciated.

Tom

 

[Leo]

Do not use the RESET option. That downloads every message in the newsgroup.

 

[Tom Berry]

That's not what I'm trying to do. I'm just trying to delete my local
storage of previously read messages. How do I do that?

Whenever I access a newsgroup I've previously visited I get the entire list
I previously downloaded. What I want is only the messages that have been
added to the group since I previously visited it.

Thank you for your reply,

Tom

 

[Steve Cochran]

Use the delete button you were using, but don't use the reset button.

steve

 

[Tom Berry]

I appreciate the help, but this just doesn't work. Everytime I sign on to a
group there are more messages than the previous time. All messages I
previously downloaded on prior days are still retrieved from somewhere--but
I don't know where. They must be on my machine locally, but I just can't
find them. I do the DELETE under maintenance everytime before I sign off
the newsgroup. Then I do the DELETE again but the next time I access the
group they are still there. This has me baffled.

I appreciate the help.

Tom

 

[Steve Cochran]

I don't know what to suggest then. The way I do it is to show only read
messages and then when I leave a NG, then I mark them all read. Then when I
come back, I only see the new ones, since those are unread.

steve

 

[Tom Berry]

Thank you. This doesn't delete my local cache of previously downloaded
messages, but it does allow me to view only new unread messages and that is
what I was trying to do.

Tom