I have never seen newsgroups that keep posts that long, but I'll take your
word for it.

If you want to download newsgroups, but don't want hundreds, or thousands,
of messages, you can create a message rule such as this:

Tools | Message Rules | News.

Box 1: Where the message was sent more than days ago
Box 2: Delete it & Stop processing more rules
Box 3: Click on "Days" and choose the # of days you want.
Name the rule.

In Tools | Options | Read - Uncheck: Get XXX headers at a time. When you go
to, or subscribe to a newsgroup, it will only download the messages for the
number of days you selected.

Opinions on this vary, but in Tools | Accounts | News | Properties |
General, I have Include this account when checking for new messages checked.
When OE automatically checks for mail, (however often you have it set for),
it will also download any new news messages at the same time.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"BAD" wrote in message
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On the first download, after subscribing to a newsgroup, I sometimes get
thousands of email. Some going back several years. Then I have to go
through and delete all the old ones.

What setting should I be using so this doesn't happen?

Thanks.

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