Wrong date on my posts.

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Gord Dibben

Apologies to all for the wrong date on my posts for the past day.

Was playing with system date and neglected to change back.


Gord
 
Gord Dibben said:
Apologies to all for the wrong date on my posts for the past day.

Was playing with system date and neglected to change back.
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Not a problem for those of us that read news sorted by article number
and threaded by reference...the date's irrelevant!<g>
 
Thanks John

Many people don't appreciate these wrong-dated posts because they tend to stay
on top.

No problem with Forte Agent, those posts are marked as read and don't show up
again, but I think those using OE can't get rid of them.


Gord
 
OE just touch the delete key and confirm yes.

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Gord Dibben said:
Thanks John

Many people don't appreciate these wrong-dated posts because they tend to stay
on top.

No problem with Forte Agent, those posts are marked as read and don't show up
again, but I think those using OE can't get rid of them.


Gord
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Gord Dibben said:
Many people don't appreciate these wrong-dated posts because they tend to stay
on top.
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Yeah, my oldest posts (in terms of article number) stay on top, so I
guess I'm different that way, too.
No problem with Forte Agent, those posts are marked as read and don't show up
again, but I think those using OE can't get rid of them.
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I've never used OE, so I don't know what's possible, but that's pretty
lame...
 
JE McGimpsey said:
Yeah, my oldest posts (in terms of article number) stay on top, so I
guess I'm different that way, too.


I've never used OE, so I don't know what's possible, but that's pretty
lame...
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It's easy to delete them. Do a find, then drag all found items to deleted
folder. That's how we clear the spam (which seems to be increasing!).
 
....or just select them all and hit the delete key.

Bill


It's easy to delete them. Do a find, then drag all found items to
deleted
folder. That's how we clear the spam (which seems to be increasing!).
 
Bill Sharpe said:
...or just select them all and hit the delete key.
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Sorry, that's just weird. Why would anyone want to take up hard-drive
space by downloading newsgroup messages at all (unless one's going to
work off-line)?

In my newsreader I just mark articles/threads as "read" and I never see
them again - but they never actually get downloaded, so they never have
to be deleted.
 
Because on a dialup line you can have the system reading them
to your harddrive and not wait for anything yourself when you want
to look at the next or any other message or thread. Since they are
all text they don't use much space. The big ones just don't get
brought in and are never seen.
 
David McRitchie said:
Because on a dialup line you can have the system reading them
to your harddrive and not wait for anything yourself when you want
to look at the next or any other message or thread. Since they are
all text they don't use much space. The big ones just don't get
brought in and are never seen.
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Fair enough - though when I was on a dial-up, I still used a newsreader
that only brought down the threads I wanted, and didn't see any
significant delay other than the first message. Different strokes...
 
Hi Bob,
Delete key should work from newsgroup with OE for email and
newsgroups. Actually I use Shift+Del so it is not put
into a delete folder or the recycle bin. Also best way to deal
with spam that could have viruses, so they can't run from the
recycle bin.
To delete from a search of OE, move to your "Delete" folder.
then Shift+Del within the "Delete" folder any time after.
For Hotmail if you are grandfathered in so you can use OE
you usually have to move to your "Delete" folder. Deleting
from the hotmail folder is at the whim of the hotmail servers.
 
You can of course set up OE so that your delete folder is emptied
automatically when you quit OE.

Bill

Hi Bob,
Delete key should work from newsgroup with OE for email and
newsgroups. Actually I use Shift+Del so it is not put
into a delete folder or the recycle bin. Also best way to deal
with spam that could have viruses, so they can't run from the
recycle bin.
To delete from a search of OE, move to your "Delete" folder.
then Shift+Del within the "Delete" folder any time after.
For Hotmail if you are grandfathered in so you can use OE
you usually have to move to your "Delete" folder. Deleting
from the hotmail folder is at the whim of the hotmail servers.
 
You can of course set up OE so that your delete folder is emptied

Didn't know about that, it works and does not put anything into the recycle bin.
After testing, I put it back so it won't delete automatically. It did not throw
anything into the recycle bin either. I thought I'd seen deleted email messages
in a friend's recycle bin and she had OE, guess they were something else.

The option won't clear out Hotmail delete folder as that would require
interaction on the Hotmail server.
 
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