On 2/2/01 9:30 AM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:That's interesting. Very frequently I will click on a newsgroup — which is supposed to display all new messages on the server (as long as there aren't more new ones than my header number limit) — and then I'll rapidly click on each new unread heading to download and read the message, only to find that the newsgroup name is still bold in the folder pane, showing 2 or 3 unread messages. Are you saying that in the 30 seconds since I first clicked on the newsgroup and downloaded 3 or 4 headers, another 2 or 3 have since been uploaded there? That's possible, I guess, but it happens rather more frequently than feels right.
On 2/2/01 8:47 AM, "Bob Greenblatt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a newsgroup where the listing in the left pane shows some unread messages. I created a rule to display unread messages in this group, and none display. I have manually gone through each thread in the newsgroup and there are no messages flagged as unread. Nevertheless, the newsgroup in the left pane shows 2 of them. When I select mark all as read, then the icon in the left pane shows no unread messages.
Any idea what’s happening. Is this a bug? If not where are ( and how do I find) the unread messages?
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Bob Greenblatt
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It's a bug. Newsgroups regularly show a few messages in bold although none are unread, Just go on displaying only unread messages and mark all as read when you've read all of them.
Actually, it’s not a bug. It means that there are unread messages that are on the server, but you haven’t downloaded. You can click the toolbar button to download more. The account settings let you set how many messages will be downloaded when you connect.
Selecting mark all as read marks the undownloaded messages as read as well, so it doesn’t show an unread count.
Dan
It also means that command-L, "Refresh Message List" should get these new headers, but it seems to me that I've tried it and it doesn't. I'll be more vigilant in future. Of course the toolbar button "More", like "Get More Messages" in the View menu, gets a lot more, because it gets older messages too. Some groups have thousands of messages on the server, many predating the first batch I downloaded, and – yes - unread. But if I have already Marked All those as Read, which are these new 2 or 3 suddenly showing as Unread? I don't want to download another 100 older headers just to get these 2 or 3. It still seems a bit mysterious to me.
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Paul Berkowitz
