Xnews question....

[R. L.]

Hi, it is embrassing to ask this, given that I have been using
Xnews all along.

I have been using Xnews for long and never pay much attention
to the "Q" column on the message header's list, until one day
I unintentionally click on it with a mouse and it assign a
"score" on it. What exactly does this do? Could anyone
enlighten me? Thank you.






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[Aries]

Hi, it is embrassing to ask this, given that I have been using
Xnews all along.

I have been using Xnews for long and never pay much attention
to the "Q" column on the message header's list, until one day
I unintentionally click on it with a mouse and it assign a
"score" on it. What exactly does this do? Could anyone
enlighten me? Thank you.

I don't use XNews I use Dialog, but won't the answer to your question be in
the help section ?

 

[Sweet Andy Licious]

Hi, it is embrassing to ask this, given that I have been using
Xnews all along.

I have been using Xnews for long and never pay much attention
to the "Q" column on the message header's list, until one day
I unintentionally click on it with a mouse and it assign a
"score" on it. What exactly does this do? Could anyone
enlighten me? Thank you.

Rarely use Xnews, but I believe this is a way of rating things. I could be
wrong, of course.

 

[jason]

Hi, it is embrassing to ask this, given that I have been using
Xnews all along.

I have been using Xnews for long and never pay much attention
to the "Q" column on the message header's list, until one day
I unintentionally click on it with a mouse and it assign a
"score" on it. What exactly does this do? Could anyone
enlighten me? Thank you.

It has to do with queing.

Here's what it says in the manual...

Q: How do I decode/save/transfer several articles at once?

A: Xnews uses a queuing system. To put an article into the queue, press
Space. Pressing space again removes it from the queue. When you queue an
article, you will see a number indicating its queue order in the Q
column. Now, select Article | Decode/Save as... or Transfer | (folder).
You can also queue/dequeue an entire thread at a time.

Hope that helps.

 

[R. L.]

I don't use XNews I use Dialog, but won't the answer to
your question be in the help section ?

Yes, it is, but I can't figure out what "queue" actually does
in a practical sense, here is what I found:

"Q: ... decode/save/transfer several articles at once?

A: Xnews uses a queuing system. To put an article into the
queue, press Space. Pressing space again removes it from the
queue. When you queue an article, you will see a number
indicating its queue order in the Q column. Now, select
Article | Decode/Save as... or Transfer | (folder). You can
also queue/dequeue an entire thread at a time."

I wonder what is it different from filtering or scoring.


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[jason]

I wonder what is it different from filtering or scoring.

No relation whatsoever! You typically use queing when you want to download
multipart binaries (like MP3s, for example).

 

[R. L.]

No relation whatsoever! You typically use queing when you
want to download multipart binaries (like MP3s, for
example).

Oh, I see...so I never do binaries, I won't have use of it
then thanks


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No relation whatsoever! You typically use queing when you want to
download multipart binaries (like MP3s, for example).

Just to add to that, it's used whether the binaries are single- or
multi-part. The queue can also be used when using Xnews as an offline
newsreader[1] for text groups; you queue the headers you want to
download, then go online and select 'fetch to storage' to pull the
queued posts.

[1] Xnews was not designed with offline reading in mind, and I don't
recommend it, but it's possible.

 

[JohnZing]

I don't use XNews I use Dialog, but won't the answer to your question be in
the help section ?

i decided to try Dialog. Very good prog. Just a little problem. How can i
download a message just by clicking in the subject? (like thunderbird) It
seems that i have to double-click to download. Is there an option to change
this behavior?

thank you.

 

[Aries]

i decided to try Dialog. Very good prog. Just a little problem. How can i
download a message just by clicking in the subject? (like thunderbird) It
seems that i have to double-click to download. Is there an option to change
this behavior?

thank you.

Strange! Mine open with a single click -
Try this
Settings/general settings/navigation/
tick all boxes in top set except the first one (that is how mine is set up)
and see if that does the trick.
http://www.copelands.plus.com/val/

 

[JohnZing]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:53:58 +0100, Aries wrote:

thank you for your reply,
well... does not work.
i still need to double-click the item to download it.

thanks anyway...

 

[Aries]

thank you for your reply,
well... does not work.
i still need to double-click the item to download it.

thanks anyway...

If you post the question to news.software.readers with DIALOG in the subject
heading you should get the answer to your query. HTH

 

[RJB]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:53:58 +0100, Aries wrote:

thank you for your reply,
well... does not work.
i still need to double-click the item to download it.

thanks anyway...

Try this: http://tinyurl.com/5f2wa
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[Albert Simmer]

It has to do with queing.

Here's what it says in the manual...

Q: How do I decode/save/transfer several articles at once?

A: Xnews uses a queuing system. To put an article into the queue, press
Space. Pressing space again removes it from the queue. When you queue an
article, you will see a number indicating its queue order in the Q
column. Now, select Article | Decode/Save as... or Transfer | (folder).
You can also queue/dequeue an entire thread at a time.

So this is how I use it. Lets say I'm in alt.artwork.group. Someone post a
series of pics I like and there are 100 pics in the series. He was good
enough to also post a index so I know I want all the pics. I queue them all
up. Then I go off and read some more articles and see someone posted
another series but I only want a few of these so I queue those up. Then i
go off and read some more post about this and that and find its time for
aqua teen hunger force to come on so I hit the decode button and dump all
of my queued up pics somewhere on my computer while I go and watch
cartoons.

Or sometimes I will just queue up a series and download everything posted
and use a duplicate file remover to get rid of dups. Saves time because
I'm not looking at each file.