How do you delete NG messages in Windows Live Mail?
(other than one at a time)

Thanks,
Max

On 4/15/2011 4:27 PM, Max wrote:
How do you delete NG messages in Windows Live Mail?
(other than one at a time)

Thanks,
Max
I don't no how it is handled in live mail, but you can not delete
newsgroup messages from the newsserver. ie that may appear to be gone in
the newsreader, but they will be on the server nearly forever. For a
newreader/email program like Thunderbird, you can adjust the built in
fiters to see only unread. so you only see the new messages.

"k-nuttle" wrote in message
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On 4/15/2011 4:27 PM, Max wrote:
How do you delete NG messages in Windows Live Mail?
(other than one at a time)

Thanks,
Max
I don't no how it is handled in live mail, but you can not delete
newsgroup messages from the newsserver. ie that may appear to be gone in
the newsreader, but they will be on the server nearly forever. For a
newreader/email program like Thunderbird, you can adjust the built in
fiters to see only unread. so you only see the new messages.


I have Windows Vista on a desktop and Windows 7 on a laptop. I read
newsgroups on the desktop and delete the messages daily.
When I use the laptop (about once every 2 weeks) there are 300 message
headers most of which I've already read.
I can't seem to find an easy way to delete all of them from Windows Live
Mail.

Max

On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:41:42 -0600, "Max" wrote:

"k-nuttle" wrote in message
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On 4/15/2011 4:27 PM, Max wrote:
How do you delete NG messages in Windows Live Mail?
(other than one at a time)

Thanks,
Max
I don't no how it is handled in live mail, but you can not delete
newsgroup messages from the newsserver. ie that may appear to be gone in
the newsreader, but they will be on the server nearly forever. For a
newreader/email program like Thunderbird, you can adjust the built in
fiters to see only unread. so you only see the new messages.


I have Windows Vista on a desktop and Windows 7 on a laptop. I read
newsgroups on the desktop and delete the messages daily.
When I use the laptop (about once every 2 weeks) there are 300 message
headers most of which I've already read.
I can't seem to find an easy way to delete all of them from Windows Live
Mail.

Can't you sort by date and delete all before some date/time?

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On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:41:42 -0600, "Max"
wrote:

"k-nuttle" wrote in message
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On 4/15/2011 4:27 PM, Max wrote:
How do you delete NG messages in Windows Live Mail?
(other than one at a time)

Thanks,
Max
I don't no how it is handled in live mail, but you can not delete
newsgroup messages from the newsserver. ie that may appear to be gone in
the newsreader, but they will be on the server nearly forever. For a
newreader/email program like Thunderbird, you can adjust the built in
fiters to see only unread. so you only see the new messages.


I have Windows Vista on a desktop and Windows 7 on a laptop. I read
newsgroups on the desktop and delete the messages daily.
When I use the laptop (about once every 2 weeks) there are 300 message
headers most of which I've already read.
I can't seem to find an easy way to delete all of them from Windows Live
Mail.

Can't you sort by date and delete all before some date/time?


Nope. Don't work.

But thanks.

Max

On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 14:32:05 -0600, "Max" wrote:

wrote in message
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On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:41:42 -0600, "Max"
wrote:

"k-nuttle" wrote in message
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On 4/15/2011 4:27 PM, Max wrote:
How do you delete NG messages in Windows Live Mail?
(other than one at a time)

Thanks,
Max
I don't no how it is handled in live mail, but you can not delete
newsgroup messages from the newsserver. ie that may appear to be gone in
the newsreader, but they will be on the server nearly forever. For a
newreader/email program like Thunderbird, you can adjust the built in
fiters to see only unread. so you only see the new messages.


I have Windows Vista on a desktop and Windows 7 on a laptop. I read
newsgroups on the desktop and delete the messages daily.
When I use the laptop (about once every 2 weeks) there are 300 message
headers most of which I've already read.
I can't seem to find an easy way to delete all of them from Windows Live
Mail.

Can't you sort by date and delete all before some date/time?


Nope. Don't work.

Mark as read instead of delete? Get a better NNTP client?

On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:41:42 -0600, "Max"
wrote:

"k-nuttle" wrote in message
...
On 4/15/2011 4:27 PM, Max wrote:
How do you delete NG messages in Windows Live Mail?
(other than one at a time)

Thanks,
Max
I don't no how it is handled in live mail, but you can not delete
newsgroup messages from the newsserver. ie that may appear to be gone in
the newsreader, but they will be on the server nearly forever. For a
newreader/email program like Thunderbird, you can adjust the built in
fiters to see only unread. so you only see the new messages.


I have Windows Vista on a desktop and Windows 7 on a laptop. I read
newsgroups on the desktop and delete the messages daily.
When I use the laptop (about once every 2 weeks) there are 300 message
headers most of which I've already read.
I can't seem to find an easy way to delete all of them from Windows Live
Mail.

Max
Most windows programs will let you select a range by clicking on one
item the hold down the shift key and select the other end of the
range. You can select individual items by holding down Ctrl. I don't
use Windows Live so I have no idea how it works. Still using Agent 2
and Thunderbird.

Mike M

"Mike M" wrote

"Max" wrote:

I have Windows Vista on a desktop and Windows 7 on a laptop. I read
newsgroups on the desktop and delete the messages daily.
When I use the laptop (about once every 2 weeks) there are 300 message
headers most of which I've already read.
I can't seem to find an easy way to delete all of them from Windows Live
Mail.

Max
Most windows programs will let you select a range by clicking on one
item the hold down the shift key and select the other end of the
range. You can select individual items by holding down Ctrl. I don't
use Windows Live so I have no idea how it works. Still using Agent 2
and Thunderbird.

Mike M

Don't work. :-(

Max

In article om,
says...

"Mike M" wrote

"Max" wrote:

I have Windows Vista on a desktop and Windows 7 on a laptop. I read
newsgroups on the desktop and delete the messages daily.
When I use the laptop (about once every 2 weeks) there are 300 message
headers most of which I've already read.
I can't seem to find an easy way to delete all of them from Windows Live
Mail.

Max
Most windows programs will let you select a range by clicking on one
item the hold down the shift key and select the other end of the
range. You can select individual items by holding down Ctrl. I don't
use Windows Live so I have no idea how it works. Still using Agent 2
and Thunderbird.

Mike M

Don't work. :-(

On the list of newsgroups on the left, right click the newsgroup and
select "Catch Up". Step two, at the top, Click "view" in the menu bar,
then under "Filter Messages", "Hide Read Messages".

There doesn't seem to be any way to catch up multiple newsgroups in a
single step.

Works just fine here.

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Don't work. :-(



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Most windows programs will let you select a range by clicking on one
item the hold down the shift key and select the other end of the
range. You can select individual items by holding down Ctrl. I don't
use Windows Live so I have no idea how it works. Still using Agent 2
and Thunderbird.

Mike M

"Max" wrote in message
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How do you delete NG messages in Windows Live Mail?
(other than one at a time)

Thanks,
Max

You don't.

Go to the VIEW menu and the SHOW AND HIDE and select HIDE READ MESSAGES and
you won't see them again.

"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message
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"Max" wrote in message
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How do you delete NG messages in Windows Live Mail?
(other than one at a time)

Thanks,
Max

You don't.

Go to the VIEW menu and the SHOW AND HIDE and select HIDE READ MESSAGES and
you won't see them again.

Of course the prior comments will hide read messages. But the unread
messages will still display. On my Outlook Live screen, there is a very
small icon in the upper left corner, way at the top, which looks like a pair
of envelopes. If you cursor over that icon it should say "Mark all read".
When I finish a session and have read what I want, I click on that icon and
all the messages become 'read'. My view screen is set up to show only unread
messages. My next session shows only new messages. Hope this helps.

TinWoodsmn

On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 14:19:54 -0700, "Tinwoodsmn"
wrote:

"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message
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"Max" wrote in message
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How do you delete NG messages in Windows Live Mail?
(other than one at a time)

Thanks,
Max

You don't.

Go to the VIEW menu and the SHOW AND HIDE and select HIDE READ MESSAGES and
you won't see them again.

I don't like doing that because you lose context, particularly with people who
don't include context or top-post. It's better to just not expand threads
with no new/unread content.

Of course the prior comments will hide read messages. But the unread
messages will still display. On my Outlook Live screen, there is a very
small icon in the upper left corner, way at the top, which looks like a pair
of envelopes. If you cursor over that icon it should say "Mark all read".
When I finish a session and have read what I want, I click on that icon and
all the messages become 'read'. My view screen is set up to show only unread
messages. My next session shows only new messages. Hope this helps.

TinWoodsmn

To delete them you select them in a group using the MS Windows technique,
same as any other software written correctly for Windows.

- To select one item...click on it
- To select multiple items hold down your control key and click on any item
you want selected
- To select a contiguous group of items select (see top method) the first or
last item then go to the other end of the list and hold down the shift key
while you click on the item at the other end.

After selecting one, random, or grouped items hit the delete key or right
click on your mouse and select delete off the pull-down menu.

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"Max" wrote in message
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How do you delete NG messages in Windows Live Mail?
(other than one at a time)

Thanks,
Max

"Max" wrote in message
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How do you delete NG messages in Windows Live Mail?
(other than one at a time)

Thanks,
Max

This is probably what you are looking for, similar to Outlook Express

Click on the Newsgroups icon, bottom left, so that your news group shows.
At the top of the window, click the Folders tab.
Click the Message Rules tab on the right.
You then get a window that is very similar if not exactly like the one that
Outlook Express has.

I just installed Windows Live Mail also and am having to learn the my way
around. I don't recall Outlook Express needing to be improved and yet here
we are. ;~(

"Leon" wrote in message
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"Max" wrote in message
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How do you delete NG messages in Windows Live Mail?
(other than one at a time)

Thanks,
Max

This is probably what you are looking for, similar to Outlook Express

Click on the Newsgroups icon, bottom left, so that your news group shows.
At the top of the window, click the Folders tab.
Click the Message Rules tab on the right.
You then get a window that is very similar if not exactly like the one that
Outlook Express has.

I just installed Windows Live Mail also and am having to learn the my way
around. I don't recall Outlook Express needing to be improved and yet here
we are. ;~(


BTY I just set up a rule deleting anything over 30 days old, worked just
like Outlook Express. Remember that this is a manual task and you have to
select the particular news group you want the rule to apply to.

"Leon" lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote

I just installed Windows Live Mail also and am having to learn the my way
around. I don't recall Outlook Express needing to be improved and yet
here we are. ;~(
It took me awhile to figure out how to killfile in MS's latest offering.
You right click on the offending message header, then go to Junk E-mail.
Click that and look at the menu. Click on Add To Blocked Senders List.

Thee is an obsession with hiding everything. I needed the paint program and
could not find it anywhere. I did a search for it and it popped up. What
is the logic behind hiding everything? Microsoft has a long term policy of
dumbing down every version of its software.

"Lee Michaels" leemichaels*nadaspam* at comcast
dot net wrote in message
b.com...


"Leon" lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote

I just installed Windows Live Mail also and am
having to learn the my way around. I don't
recall Outlook Express needing to be improved
and yet here we are. ;~(
It took me awhile to figure out how to killfile
in MS's latest offering. You right click on the
offending message header, then go to Junk
E-mail. Click that and look at the menu. Click
on Add To Blocked Senders List.

Thee is an obsession with hiding everything. I
needed the paint program and could not find it
anywhere. I did a search for it and it popped
up. What is the logic behind hiding everything?
Microsoft has a long term policy of dumbing down
every version of its software.


Yeah, they sure buried that dvorak keyboard layout
pretty deep!
Considering the advancement in technology why is
the
qwerty layout still in existence? Stupid if you
ask me.....
phil

Phil Kangas wrote:


Yeah, they sure buried that dvorak keyboard layout
pretty deep!
Considering the advancement in technology why is
the
qwerty layout still in existence? Stupid if you
ask me.....

That's easy - because so many people are so used to QWERTY. It's not really
stupid at all - there was a very real reason for that layout originally.
Once it becomes the standard and so many people are so familiar with it,
it's only logical that it will take time to displace it.

--

-Mike-

"Mike Marlow" wrote
in message
...
Phil Kangas wrote:


Yeah, they sure buried that dvorak keyboard
layout
pretty deep!
Considering the advancement in technology why
is
the
qwerty layout still in existence? Stupid if you
ask me.....

That's easy - because so many people are so used
to QWERTY. It's not really stupid at all -
there was a very real reason for that layout
originally. Once it becomes the standard and so
many people are so familiar with it, it's only
logical that it will take time to displace it.

--

-Mike-

The qwerty layout was intended to slow down the
fast typists
because the keys would jam up. And that layout
also aggravates
carpal tunnel syndrome, that's why I switched. The
dvorak
layout is a quantum leap forward in ease of use,
speed
and accuracy.
phil k.

In article , says...

"Lee Michaels" leemichaels*nadaspam* at comcast
dot net wrote in message
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"Leon" lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote

I just installed Windows Live Mail also and am
having to learn the my way around. I don't
recall Outlook Express needing to be improved
and yet here we are. ;~(
It took me awhile to figure out how to killfile
in MS's latest offering. You right click on the
offending message header, then go to Junk
E-mail. Click that and look at the menu. Click
on Add To Blocked Senders List.

Thee is an obsession with hiding everything. I
needed the paint program and could not find it
anywhere. I did a search for it and it popped
up. What is the logic behind hiding everything?
Microsoft has a long term policy of dumbing down
every version of its software.


Yeah, they sure buried that dvorak keyboard layout
pretty deep!

Entering "dvorak" into help got me there in about six clicks.

Considering the advancement in technology why is
the
qwerty layout still in existence? Stupid if you
ask me.....

Because legions of touch-typists know QWERTY and tests have shown that
Dvorak does not confer sufficient benefits to justify the cost of
retraining.

"Lee Michaels" wrote

It took me awhile to figure out how to killfile in MS's latest offering.
You right click on the offending message header, then go to Junk E-mail.
Click that and look at the menu. Click on Add To Blocked Senders List.

Thee is an obsession with hiding everything. I needed the paint program
and could not find it anywhere. I did a search for it and it popped up.
What is the logic behind hiding everything? Microsoft has a long term
policy of dumbing down every version of its software.

Just as it is in any bureaucracy the software writers at MS feel a need to
justify their existence so they make changes whether they're needed or not.
;-)

Max

"Max" wrote
"Lee Michaels" wrote

It took me awhile to figure out how to killfile in MS's latest offering.
You right click on the offending message header, then go to Junk E-mail.
Click that and look at the menu. Click on Add To Blocked Senders List.

Thee is an obsession with hiding everything. I needed the paint program
and could not find it anywhere. I did a search for it and it popped up.
What is the logic behind hiding everything? Microsoft has a long term
policy of dumbing down every version of its software.

Just as it is in any bureaucracy the software writers at MS feel a need to
justify their existence so they make changes whether they're needed or
not. ;-)
----
It has always been my theory that software geeks are socially maladjusted
individuals who can't get laid. So they write this nightmarish software to
make normal people's lives a living hell. As a geek revenge thing.

The killfile thing I mention above came about not because I figured it out
from a killfile or newsgroup perspective. I kept getting e-mails with SPAM
in the header. And often they were from friends. I even got the SPAM
designation from e-mails I sent to myself from another computer. It was
disconcerting to get important e-mail with the SPAM designation.
Particularly if I archived them.

When I came across that Junk E-mail thing, it all made sense. I looked up
kilfiles, etc in help. Nothing. Apparently nobody at MS knows about or
acknowledges the existence of killfiles. It probably would cut into sales of
Bing advertising. I found it as a side note in a forum messages somewhere.
The message was referring to the difference between Vista and Windows7 for
killfiling. Nothing on the subject was available from Microsoft.

The same with the paint program. There was no menu choice. It pops up if
you search for it. There are a number of programs I can't get to in W7. So
I attach them to the task bar. There are a number of functions that I can't
access in the menus. I was able to find them and add the function as an
icon someplace.

This whole idea that you have hidden function is absurd. Why should you
hide functions in the program? What purpose does it serve? It just ****es
people off. I read someplace that some poor little whiners were upset that
the operating system was "too complicated". No MS brags about that many
functions are hidden. The make it sound like a good thing. If it is so
good, why don't they mention it in the help files? Or make it easier to find
the hidden functions? Why can't I find it our from MS themselves?

I know that I am a dinosaur. I remember manuals. Remember those books that
came with the software. I not only read those things, but I bought
additional manuals. Often much better than the MS manuals. There I go
showing my age again. I actually can and do READ!

hanging my head in shame

/end of rant

"Lee Michaels" wrote

It has always been my theory that software geeks are socially maladjusted
individuals who can't get laid. So they write this nightmarish software
to make normal people's lives a living hell. As a geek revenge thing.

The killfile thing I mention above came about not because I figured it out
from a killfile or newsgroup perspective. I kept getting e-mails with SPAM
in the header. And often they were from friends. I even got the SPAM
designation from e-mails I sent to myself from another computer. It was
disconcerting to get important e-mail with the SPAM designation.
Particularly if I archived them.

When I came across that Junk E-mail thing, it all made sense. I looked up
kilfiles, etc in help. Nothing. Apparently nobody at MS knows about or
acknowledges the existence of killfiles. It probably would cut into sales
of Bing advertising. I found it as a side note in a forum messages
somewhere. The message was referring to the difference between Vista and
Windows7 for killfiling. Nothing on the subject was available from
Microsoft.

The same with the paint program. There was no menu choice. It pops up if
you search for it. There are a number of programs I can't get to in W7.
So I attach them to the task bar. There are a number of functions that I
can't access in the menus. I was able to find them and add the function
as an icon someplace.

This whole idea that you have hidden function is absurd. Why should you
hide functions in the program? What purpose does it serve? It just ****es
people off. I read someplace that some poor little whiners were upset
that the operating system was "too complicated". No MS brags about that
many functions are hidden. The make it sound like a good thing. If it is
so good, why don't they mention it in the help files? Or make it easier to
find the hidden functions? Why can't I find it our from MS themselves?

I know that I am a dinosaur. I remember manuals. Remember those books
that came with the software. I not only read those things, but I bought
additional manuals. Often much better than the MS manuals. There I go
showing my age again. I actually can and do READ!

hanging my head in shame

/end of rant


I'm with you. I recently bought a smart phone. Instructions, such as they
are, are available.......online............... or by purchase........through
an 800 number. WTF?

Max.......mumbling.......

You could probably get user manuals on a DVD in a 5,280 page format covering
some of the basics.

MS looking for manual writers with systems over 32GB of RAM memory to manage
the next generation of manuals.

Yeah, I hate it too but feeling old is natural at your age. Nobody wants to
use the laptop after a 2 hour **** session on the toilet where most of the
learning is done.


LOL

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"Lee Michaels" wrote in message
b.com...
It has always been my theory that software geeks are socially maladjusted
individuals who can't get laid. So they write this nightmarish software to
make normal people's lives a living hell. As a geek revenge thing.

The killfile thing I mention above came about not because I figured it out
from a killfile or newsgroup perspective. I kept getting e-mails with SPAM
in the header. And often they were from friends. I even got the SPAM
designation from e-mails I sent to myself from another computer. It was
disconcerting to get important e-mail with the SPAM designation.
Particularly if I archived them.

When I came across that Junk E-mail thing, it all made sense. I looked up
kilfiles, etc in help. Nothing. Apparently nobody at MS knows about or
acknowledges the existence of killfiles. It probably would cut into sales of
Bing advertising. I found it as a side note in a forum messages somewhere.
The message was referring to the difference between Vista and Windows7 for
killfiling. Nothing on the subject was available from Microsoft.

The same with the paint program. There was no menu choice. It pops up if
you search for it. There are a number of programs I can't get to in W7. So
I attach them to the task bar. There are a number of functions that I can't
access in the menus. I was able to find them and add the function as an
icon someplace.

This whole idea that you have hidden function is absurd. Why should you
hide functions in the program? What purpose does it serve? It just ****es
people off. I read someplace that some poor little whiners were upset that
the operating system was "too complicated". No MS brags about that many
functions are hidden. The make it sound like a good thing. If it is so
good, why don't they mention it in the help files? Or make it easier to find
the hidden functions? Why can't I find it our from MS themselves?

I know that I am a dinosaur. I remember manuals. Remember those books that
came with the software. I not only read those things, but I bought
additional manuals. Often much better than the MS manuals. There I go
showing my age again. I actually can and do READ!

hanging my head in shame

/end of rant

"Leon" wrote

"Max" wrote

How do you delete NG messages in Windows Live Mail?
(other than one at a time)

Thanks,
Max

This is probably what you are looking for, similar to Outlook Express

Click on the Newsgroups icon, bottom left, so that your news group shows.
At the top of the window, click the Folders tab.
Click the Message Rules tab on the right.
You then get a window that is very similar if not exactly like the one
that Outlook Express has.

I just installed Windows Live Mail also and am having to learn the my way
around. I don't recall Outlook Express needing to be improved and yet
here we are. ;~(


Thanks, Leon.
The method that has proved to work well is:
"Select" the first message.
Holding the shift key down, scroll down and select the last message. All
messages will be highlighted.
press the delete *key*.
Voila!! All messages disappear. Miraculous!! LOL

Max

"Max" wrote in message
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How do you delete NG messages in Windows Live Mail?
(other than one at a time)

Thanks,
Max

And, in Live Mail, looking at the messages in the news groups I am finding
that if I sort the messages other than by the "Sent" column you cannot open
the original thread to see all the posts below it. Any one else see this?

Highlight a message.
Hit control A (that will highlight all)
Hit control Q (that will set them to "all read")

Ed
"Max" wrote in message
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How do you delete NG messages in Windows Live Mail?
(other than one at a time)

Thanks,
Max