One great advantage of Windows Mail over Outlook Express (unless I've overlooked something)

[Julian]

On the face of it, when reading newsgroups...

If a post has been cross posted to several of ones subscribed groups
reading a post in one group results in it being marked read in all group.

There was nothing more tedious than reading the same post
time and time again in related groups.

 

[Tom Porterfield]

On the face of it, when reading newsgroups...

If a post has been cross posted to several of ones subscribed groups
reading a post in one group results in it being marked read in all group.

There was nothing more tedious than reading the same post
time and time again in related groups.

Outlook Express would do the same thing. When/if it works depends on
how the message is cross posted. If the sender posts a single message
by putting multiple newsgroups in the newsgroup field then Windows Mail,
OE and other newsreaders can properly mark the message read across all
groups after you have seen it for the first time. That is the proper
way to cross post. But some folks instead send the exact same message
to multiple groups, one group at a time. If they do that, then
newsreader software will not mark it as read in the other groups, since
it isn't really the same message from a newsreader standpoint.
--
Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
http://support.teloep.org

Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only.

 

[Antonio Amengual]

On the face of it, when reading newsgroups...

If a post has been cross posted to several of ones subscribed groups
reading a post in one group results in it being marked read in all group.

There was nothing more tedious than reading the same post
time and time again in related groups.

this is the standard behavior for WM and OE under prior to Vista OSs

 

[Julian]

Outlook Express would do the same thing. When/if it works depends on how
the message is cross posted. If the sender posts a single message by
putting multiple newsgroups in the newsgroup field then Windows Mail, OE
and other newsreaders can properly mark the message read across all groups
after you have seen it for the first time. That is the proper way to
cross post. But some folks instead send the exact same message to
multiple groups, one group at a time. If they do that, then newsreader
software will not mark it as read in the other groups, since it isn't
really the same message from a newsreader standpoint.

Cheers.

I must have had something set up wrong then because for years
posts properly cross posted to my groups were definitely not
marked read by reading on just one group.

Mind you, I have just started using a new newsserver, new.btinternet.com,
simultaneously with using Windows mail. Perhaps the difference is the
newsserver?

 

[Justin]

Cheers.

I must have had something set up wrong then because for years
posts properly cross posted to my groups were definitely not
marked read by reading on just one group.

Mind you, I have just started using a new newsserver, new.btinternet.com,
simultaneously with using Windows mail. Perhaps the difference is the
newsserver?

I agree, I've never seen this functionality in OE. However, this is a very
good feature in WM as well as WLMd.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

this is the standard behavior for WM and OE under prior to Vista OSs

Strange. My Outlook Express has properly handled crossposts for
many years already.

 

[Julian]

Strange. My Outlook Express has properly handled crossposts for
many years already.

This one change in functionality, however it came about, has made a huge
difference to my "working" day. I regularly keep up to date with a bunch
of 5 groups concerning a particular topic. On these around 80% of the posts
are crossposted across a subset or all groups. It is a real joy to come
across a crosspost only once and not miss (due to clutter)those posted
exclusively and, conservatively, I am saved an hour a day.

I don't recall, ever, any one change to functionality that has had such
a substantial effect on my computing experience.

Whether it be a change to WM, my new newsserver, or my finally using the
stuff properly... I'm delighted.