"Bill Ridgeway" wrote in message
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I am subscribed to one NewsGroup which, as I keep as a standby, have NOT
ticked to "Include this account when checking for new messages". However,
occasionally it does download new messages. Why does this happen please?



If you enter the newsgroup while you are online
the number of headers specified in the Get 300 headers at a time
option (in Read tab) will be downloaded.

To avoid that only enter that newsgroup while you are in a Working Offline
state. Hint: it is very easy to be in the Working Online state inadvertently
(e.g. in order to read something using your browser) so don't be surprised
if you keep seeing downloaded headers occaasionally. ; )

BTW I think that this is off-topic for this newsgroup IE General.
It would be more appropriate for OE General.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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