Hi.

Does anyone know of a way of downloading more than 1000 headers at a time,
with some groups having more than 300,000 posts at a time this is a real
pain.

T.I.A

"David Robinson" wrote in message
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Hi.

Does anyone know of a way of downloading more than 1000 headers at a time,
with some groups having more than 300,000 posts at a time this is a real
pain.

Do you really want to read 300 000 messages? If you just want to mark the
old ones as read, "Catch Up" is the command to use after you've read (or
pretended to read!) the recent ones.
--
David Biddulph

"David Robinson" wrote in message
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Hi.

Does anyone know of a way of downloading more than 1000 headers at a time,
with some groups having more than 300,000 posts at a time this is a real
pain.

T.I.A


Remove the checkmark in front of the part where you can change the amount of
headers to download.

Just uncheck that option.

If you don't want all 300,000, then set it to download 50 at a time before
going to the NG. Go to the NG and get those 50. Then use Edit | Catch up
to set it to where all messages are considered downloaded. Then uncheck the
download 50 at a time, and you will then only get the newest messages.

Can you give me an example of the NG that has 300,000 messages? I'd like to
check it out and see how badly OE performs with such.

steve

"David Robinson" wrote in message
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Hi.

Does anyone know of a way of downloading more than 1000 headers at a time,
with some groups having more than 300,000 posts at a time this is a real
pain.

T.I.A

What I do:

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

ToolsMessage RulesNews.

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 ToolsOptionsRead - 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.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"David Robinson" wrote in message
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Hi.

Does anyone know of a way of downloading more than 1000 headers at a time,
with some groups having more than 300,000 posts at a time this is a real
pain.

T.I.A

"Steve Cochran"

Can you give me an example of the NG that has 300,000 messages? I'd like
to check it out and see how badly OE performs with such.

Try alt.binaries.tv. I just looked and they've got 1,473,714 messages in the
queue.

That should give OE plenty of opportunity to show its stuff...

:-) (Evil Grin (TM))

--
Bob
http://www.kanyak.com

omardinho de niro vous encule
"David Robinson" a écrit dans le message de news:
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Hi.

Does anyone know of a way of downloading more than 1000 headers at a time,
with some groups having more than 300,000 posts at a time this is a real
pain.

T.I.A

Thanks for that. That will screw it up bigtime. VBG

steve

"Opinicus" wrote in message
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"Steve Cochran"

Can you give me an example of the NG that has 300,000 messages? I'd like
to check it out and see how badly OE performs with such.

Try alt.binaries.tv. I just looked and they've got 1,473,714 messages in
the queue.

That should give OE plenty of opportunity to show its stuff...

:-) (Evil Grin (TM))

--
Bob
http://www.kanyak.com

"David Robinson" wrote in message
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Hi.

Does anyone know of a way of downloading more than 1000 headers at a time,
with some groups having more than 300,000 posts at a time this is a real
pain.

T.I.A

Added to my Killfile. Goodbye forever James.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"james marzolino" wrote in message
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"David Robinson" wrote in message
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Hi.

Does anyone know of a way of downloading more than 1000 headers at a
time, with some groups having more than 300,000 posts at a time this is a
real pain.

T.I.A