And it came to pass that Chris Montgomery wrote:
> Christopher Jahn wrote:
>
>> And it came to pass that Chris Montgomery wrote:
>>
>>
>>>In the Mozilla 0.9.7 news reader, how can you delete
>>>messages? I would like to delete individual messages or
>>>entire blocks of messages in newsgroups but cannot find a
>>>way to do this? Surely there is a way to do this, other
>>>news readers certainly have this capability.
>>>
>>
>> No, they don't - they mislabel what you are actually doing.
>>
>> You don't delete newsgroup messages - they aren't on your
>> computer, so you can't delete them anymore than you can
>> delete a web page you are viewing.
>
>
> Ok.
>
>
>> What you CAN do (and what those other programs are ACTUALLY
>> doing) is remove them from view. The way to do these is to
>> select "View - Messages - Unread" or "View - Messages -
>> Threads with Unread".
>>
>> Then when you finish reading the group, you can mark all
>> messages as read, and all you will see are the new messages
>> next time you open the group.
>>
>
> Ok, but what would be nice is to mark selected messages as
> "protected" so that they will stay on the server (or be
> stored locally) and not be deleted even after being marked
> "read."
Of course the message will remain on the server even if you
can't see it once you've read it - simply toggling from "unread"
to "all" brings it back in view.
And you CAN store it locally - right click and select "Copy
to.." from the context menu. You can store the message in any
folder you like.
> This would be easier than having to save them off to
> a file if one wants to maintain a history on a particular
> topic (like this thread). Gravity (on Windows) has that
> functionality. I can delete (purge) all other messages (read
> or unread) and the protected ones will stay in the group.
> This would be a nice feature to have.
>
It would, and maybe it will be there eventually - file an RFE
bug on bugzilla.
>
> Anyway, thanks for helping clear this up for me.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>
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