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Re: Thunderbird- final comment
de ms 06/13/2006 05:19
»Q« <boxcars@gmx.net> wrote in
news:MrQ97E04B1921D6itsmeitsQ@QsFQDN.dyndns.org:
> ms <ms@invalid.com> wrote in <news:4f3kqvF1he80eU1@individual.net>:
>
>> "»Q«" <boxcars@gmx.net> wrote in
>> news:MrQ97DF76A4EC843itsmeitsQ@goldry.remarqs.net:
>>
>>> ms <ms@invalid.com> wrote in
>>> <news:4f2op5F1f5lelU1@individual.net>:
>>>
>>>> On news.software.readers, they answered one of my Xnews
>>>> questions. No answer on my Open Special question. There is
>>>> something, because some newsgroups the setting holds, others it
>>>> isn't kept.
>>>
>>> The part about your question I don't understand is how the top
>>> slider is always at the same place for some groups; it's usually
>>> set at the earliest unread article. Do you have some articles
>>> marked as "kept" in some groups? It's the only thing I can think
>>> of which affects the sliders' positions.
>>>
>>> And are you really still re-downloading read headers every time
>>> you open a group instead of using storage for them? Different
>>> storage settings could also affect the sliders, I guess. (I
>>> don't use storage.)
>>
>> Thanks, Q
>>
>> I have not touched much of anything, it is still running in
>> default mode. For instance, in ACF, it always starts with the
>> Start and End sliders at 0 (left end). I have to adjust each time.
>>
>> In alt.comp.anti-virus, Start and End are at the first settings I
>> did, they remain there. There are many early posts I never read.
>
> If the end one never moves right, you'll never get any newer headers in
> a.c.a-v.
>
Yes, that's why I had to keep moving it each time.
>> I did nothing in Storage, it still says Use Default (no storage).
>> How to use storage as you note above?
>
> You'd turn header storage on instead of leaving it off, so that you
> wouldn't have to use the special dialog to re-download every time you
> open a group. There's a button at the bottom of each group so you can
> set that group's storage options independently of the others, in case
> that helps.
>
Thanks, that did help. I checked "Store Headers and Articles". This morning
when I loaded ACF, instead of starting in Open Special, I just opened the
ng. It loaded quickly so it must have loaded a limited number of articles.
>> Where would I look for the "kept" issue?
>
> If you had marked articles kept, they'd have blue icons. I don't think
> this is the problem, though.
>
The only action item I have now is hotlinks.
Firefox is my default browser. In other newsreaders, when I click on a
hotlink, FF opens to that web address.
Xnews isn't doing that. The hotlink highlights, but that's all. I have to
copy the URL to FF.
A setting?
Thanks for your help, Xnews works best for me.
Mike Sa