Refresh newsgroup

[News]

If I am reading this newsgroup and want to refresh it, by that I mean get
any new postings, is there a way to do this without leaving the site and
returning?

 

[Dylan Parry]

Pondering the eternal question of "Hobnobs or Rich Tea?", News finally
proclaimed:

If I am reading this newsgroup and want to refresh it, by that I mean get
any new postings, is there a way to do this without leaving the site and
returning?

Leaving what site? This is Usenet. People read it through Usenet/News
clients, not through a website.

 

[David Dorward]

If I am reading this newsgroup and want to refresh it, by that I mean get
any new postings, is there a way to do this without leaving the site and
returning?

Site? What site? You might read your newsgroups through a web interface
(although it doesn't look like it to judge from your post headers), but
that site would just serve as your client. (And how you get new posting is
between you and your client, and not something that alt.html is really
concerned with).

You might try news.newusers.questions instead.

 

[Mark Parnell]

Deciding to do something for the good of humanity, News

If I am reading this newsgroup and want to refresh it, by that I mean get
any new postings, is there a way to do this without leaving the site and
returning?

Depends on your newsreader (which isn't a site, BTW). I have no idea
whether OE allows you to do this (I would assume so). My newsreader
certainly does.

 

[dorayme]

If I am reading this newsgroup and want to refresh it, by that I mean get
any new postings, is there a way to do this without leaving the site and
returning?

Yes, you can do it, usually easily. Depends on your newsreader.
If you are using an email program like Mozilla or OE, there are
menu items (in Mozilla it has "get Msgs..." on the left top of
the buttons). In my MT Mac newsreader it is a bit ridiculous but
you do other things...

What are you using?

 

[News]

Yes, you can do it, usually easily. Depends on your newsreader.
If you are using an email program like Mozilla or OE, there are
menu items (in Mozilla it has "get Msgs..." on the left top of
the buttons). In my MT Mac newsreader it is a bit ridiculous but
you do other things...

What are you using?

I am using Outlook Express

 

[dorayme]

.au...

I am using Outlook Express

Well, great! And? Cat got your tongue? Perhaps I am to understand
that: "What the hell is a menu item"? or "I read what you said
and yes, I looked for menu items but there were none at all!" or
"I read what you said and yes, I looked for menu items and each
one has a function that I know about but not the one I want".

In my Mac version of OE , there is a button called "more" with an
arrow down (next to the button "mark all as read") that appears
when in newsgroup mode (the newsgroup folder, eg "alt.htm" is
selected in left pane. Clicking this "more" button brings down
latest posts to the NG concerned.

 

[News]

Well, great! And? Cat got your tongue? Perhaps I am to understand
that: "What the hell is a menu item"? or "I read what you said
and yes, I looked for menu items but there were none at all!" or
"I read what you said and yes, I looked for menu items and each
one has a function that I know about but not the one I want".

In my Mac version of OE , there is a button called "more" with an
arrow down (next to the button "mark all as read") that appears
when in newsgroup mode (the newsgroup folder, eg "alt.htm" is
selected in left pane. Clicking this "more" button brings down
latest posts to the NG concerned.

Sometimes I feel like an I make S.U.E. all the time. Other times I just
plain feel stupid. Anyway, this MS OE 6.0 has under the Tools ->
Send/Recieve there is only Send highlighted. I cannot Recieve. I have looked
at Customize the Toolbar and see nothing that will allow me to RECEIVE. Oh
I should say that the Send/Recieve button on the toolbar is enabled=false
while I am in Newsgroups.

 

[Hywel Jenkins]

If I am reading this newsgroup and want to refresh it, by that I mean get
any new postings, is there a way to do this without leaving the site and
returning?

What does your news client's help documentation say?

 

[Blinky the Shark]

If I am reading this newsgroup and want to refresh it, by that I mean get
any new postings, is there a way to do this without leaving the site and
returning?

What site? What do sites have to do with this?

 

[dorayme]

In my Mac version of OE , there is a button called "more" with an
arrow down (next to the button "mark all as read") that appears
when in newsgroup mode (the newsgroup folder, eg "alt.htm" is
selected in left pane. Clicking this "more" button brings down
latest posts to the NG concerned.

Sometimes I feel like an I make S.U.E. all the time. Other times I just
plain feel stupid. Anyway, this MS OE 6.0 has under the Tools ->
Send/Recieve there is only Send highlighted. I cannot Recieve. I have looked
at Customize the Toolbar and see nothing that will allow me to RECEIVE. Oh
I should say that the Send/Recieve button on the toolbar is enabled=false
while I am in Newsgroups.[/QUOTE]

It seems that I am going to have to fire up my PC and see how OE
for Windows machines might differ in this regard from the older
Mac version I have (and no longer use much). Have you looked in
your Help for OE and searched for newsgroup info, etc?

OP wants to know how to get more news articles down once he is
using a newsgroup. It is not always obvious how to do this (took
me a while in my MT-Newswatcher to work this one out (it is very
inelegant indeed! OE (Mac at least) had a simple button for God's
sake. It had common sense!

OP is reading stuff on alt.html. He reads and posts and whatever.
He is wondering, "Are there any new posts since I logged on, any
in the last minute or so". How do I get them?

 

[dorayme]

What site? What do sites have to do with this?

OP means whatever he is on when he is reading eg. alt.html
postings. C'mon, Blinky, fire up your OE - you use a Windows PC
don't you? - admit this at least: there is an over 90%
probability that you do. (Admit something Blinkey, anything will
do) - and tell him how to get more posts as explained in his and
my other reply...

 

[Blinky the Shark]

OP means whatever he is on when he is reading eg. alt.html postings.

That would be his news client. Does that make this a web site? I think
not.

C'mon, Blinky, fire up your OE - you use a Windows PC don't you? - admit

Read my headers.

this at least: there is an over 90% probability that you do. (Admit

Of course there is. And there are many, many more flies eating poop every
day than there are humans eating non-poop. That doesn't mean I eat poop.

something Blinkey, anything will do) - and tell him how to get more
posts as explained in his and my other reply...

I don't know or care how to do that in Outlook Distress. History shows
I'm more than happy to help out with Xnews, Pan and slrn, though. That's
one reason the first group I do every news run is news.software.readers:
I dig good news clients.

 

[Blinky the Shark]

Read my headers.


Of course there is. And there are many, many more flies eating poop
every day than there are humans eating non-poop. That doesn't mean I
eat poop.

Okay, smart guys -- I should probably add that no other evidence up with
shich you can come shows that I eat poop, either.

On a lighter (and equally OT) note: I'm not a car-trinket kind of guy, and
never have been, but i just ordered something for my new vehicle. I
couldn't resist something these guys have:

http://www.evolvefish.com/fish/emblems.html

I got this (way down the left column):

http://www.evolvefish.com/fish/media/E-Shark5.gif

(Is the "Jesus Fish" (the Christian fish symbol that these parody) only a
USan thing for the rear of your car, or have they made it to Rightpondia?)

 

[dorayme]

That would be his news client. Does that make this a web site?

He said "site", this is a bit vaguer. And the context showed what
he wanted. A guy is contacting his newsgroup and getting
articles, he is reading articles. He is on his computer, reading
articles that have come down, he is on his newsreader program,
and he is very-close-to-being-in-contact/has recently been in
content with a computer that holds the posted articles. It - yes
"it", go figure - feels like being in a big room where we all
come and go, leave messages and hang around or not, we talk to
each other, except that there are a few time delays and stuff.
The room is the site.

I don't know or care how to do that in Outlook Distress.

Gee, you earthlings are strange...

History shows
I'm more than happy to help out with Xnews, Pan and slrn, though. That's
one reason the first group I do every news run is news.software.readers:
I dig good news clients.

You are a sensible man. I have not doubted it. And very helpful.
And knowledgeable about fish. Relax. Go fishin' even...

 

[dorayme]

http://www.evolvefish.com/fish/emblems.html

Yes, I rather fancy some of these for my old car too... perhaps I
will resist UFO Saucer Plaque With 2 Figures Inside and get the
FSM Pirate Fish Emblem to suit my generally mean looking Ford
XY...

 

[Blinky the Shark]

He said "site", this is a bit vaguer. And the context showed what he
wanted. A guy is contacting his newsgroup and getting articles, he is
reading articles. He is on his computer, reading articles that have come
down, he is on his newsreader program, and he is
very-close-to-being-in-contact/has recently been in content with a
computer that holds the posted articles. It - yes "it", go figure - feels
like being in a big room where we all come and go, leave messages and hang
around or not, we talk to each other, except that there are a few time
delays and stuff. The room is the site.

The "room" in your context (which is not a "room" in the chat context
which other newbs erroneously call everything they see) is a Usenet
newsgroup.

Gee, you earthlings are strange...

This one isn't. Because you see...(continued)

(cont'd)...I don't include OE in that group.

You are a sensible man. I have not doubted it. And very helpful. And
knowledgeable about fish. Relax. Go fishin' even...

And I will help OP figure out that this is a newsgroup and not a web site
if he responds and seems willing to learn -- that's why I tried to get his
attention in my response to his post.

 

[Blinky the Shark]

Yes, I rather fancy some of these for my old car too... perhaps I will
resist UFO Saucer Plaque With 2 Figures Inside and get the FSM Pirate Fish
Emblem to suit my generally mean looking Ford XY...

XY? (I haven't paid much attention to "new" cars for a couple decades of
driving my 1976 Triumph.)

 

[dorayme]

The "room" in your context (which is not a "room" in the chat context
which other newbs erroneously call everything they see) is a Usenet
newsgroup.

I don't know about "my" context. I was trying to get across to
you that he was vague about this business of the site and that it
did _not_ matter for his question. I have failed to do this
properly and I am going out to get a 2" by 4" piece of hardwood
timber and see if I can pay someone to give me a good working
over. (Like the one of Dirty Harry's quarries who paid Morgan
Freeman (was it?) to knuckle him over)

And I will help OP figure out that this is a newsgroup and not a web site

Even though he did not say website. Where's that piece of timber?

 

[dorayme]

XY? (I haven't paid much attention to "new" cars for a couple decades of
driving my 1976 Triumph.)

The XY Ford, an Australian model, that I have was made in 1971.
you get a pretty good idea of mine from the brown Ford at the top
of http://www.geocities.com/falconfacts/falcon/xyfalcon.html

Yes, they are starting to use the old names for new models again!

You have seriously misjudged me. Still, I feel better now I
persuaded a feller that was passing to use the timber.... (I was
slightly worried when he offered to do it for free. I did not
think this neighbour was like that!)