On 03/01/02 03:47 PM, Parish wrote: > Pratik wrote: > >>[Posting to n.p.m.mail-news and setting followups] >> >>So before I file a bug, does anyone know why newsgroup postings don't >>get downloaded automatically if you have set the option to check for new >>messages? Why do I have to press Ctrl-T to get the headers (if I am >>already in the same newsgroup)? >> >> > > Well, at a guess, it's by design. If you look in Edit->Mail & Newsgroup > Account Settings for a mail server there are 2 check boxes, "Check for > new messages every[nn] minutes", and "Automatically download any new > messages", but for News servers there is only 1, "Check for new messages > every [nn] minutes". > > So it would appear that it is not intended to automatically d/l new headers. > > I would suggest that one possible reason is that there is also an option > for News servers, "Ask me before downloading more than [nnnn] messages". > If it were designed to automatically d/l new headers you could get a > confirmation dialogue popping up out of the blue, which would sure as > hell annoy me.
Yes if you told it d/l automatically, you might get a conf box, but only if the number of new messages in the time interval specified were greater than your "ask me" threshold, which I think would be rare. I think we should have the "Automatically download" option. I'll file an RFE tomorrow if I don't see people coming up with reasons not to. Pratik.
