Michael J. Albanese wrote:
>Whenever I subscribe to a newsgroup, Mozilla wants to download all the messages
>(sometimes 50000+) before I can mark them read. I can set the preferences to limit
>the download to 500, but then I get the *oldest* 500 rather than the newest 500,
>which is what I want.
>
Make sure that when Mozilla prompts you to download 500 messages that
the "Mark remaining messages as read" is checked, so that you get the
newest 500. Otherwise you get the oldest 500, and have to read them 500
at a time...