Pratik wrote: > [Posting to n.p.m.mail-news and setting followups] > > On 03/01/02 03:09 PM, JTK wrote: > > Pratik wrote: > > > >> On 02/28/02 04:14 PM, Travis Crump wrote: > >> > >> > >>> One thing I have noticed is that if you have a newsgroup > >>> selected, there is no way to retrieve headers without going to > >>> another newsgroup and coming back. It checks for new messages, > >>> tells you there are new messages, but doesn't let you see the > >>> new messages until you leave and come back... > >>> > >> > >> Yes I see this too. Pressing Ctrl-T or Get Message button should > >> work. You shouldn't have to change newsgroups. > >> > >> > > > > You shouldn't have to do *anything*! Isn't that kinda the point of > > having it check ___automatically___?!?!?!? > > 1. You don't do something to see if there new messages. Mozilla should > indicate that there are new messages on its own. Are you seeing this, JTK? >
No, I am not. > 2. Currently, you *have* to do something to download the message > headers. But this is applicable only if you're in the same newsgroup > folder. If you click to navigate to a different newsgroup, it will > download on its own. > Right, which is why my suggestion is to poll the newsgroups periodically for new messages, and if there are some, download the headers and put them in the tree control thingie. Of what possible utility is updating just the number of new messages?
