Alan said:
Please excuse out-of-context post:
But would people please stop posting to this thread? Or start a new
one and let this one die out?
My message reader has a mere 1000 message limit so I (and probably
many others) can't see anything beyond this particular thread
anymore. There doesn't seem to be an option to ignore this thread so
it will sit there on the bottom of the page allowing only 30 threads
(at present, and diminishing) to appear in this group.
I can see new messages are being posted to this group by the "new"
count on the left-hand pane but my newsreader (admittedly Outlook
Express... what can I say) won't display them because it has already
exceeded it's 1000 message/header limit.
I use OE too (and I agree it sucks) but I don't recognize the behavior
you're describing.
1. The 1000 message limit is how many it will download at one time, not how
many it can display. You can "Get Next 1000 Headers" as often as you like
until they're all downloaded.
2. You can set OE to only display unread messages.
3. If you set OE to "Group Messages By Conversation", you can right-click on
a thread and "Mark Conversation As Read", which effectively erases it (until
now posts are added to it, anyway.)
I'm running a fairly new version (6.00), but none of this has changed for
many years.