Ooops, posted this earlier but forgot to change my email address, is
there anyway to set up an alias on these groups?
On *Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:19:19 +1300*
In message *[md-2] Lost post pointers*
*Patrick Ford* wrote:
On 30-Oct-00, George Bayliss wrote:
> > IIRC you can't just unsubscribe then re-subscribe opting for the last
> > 100 posts. You might have to delete (or remove) all the previous posts
> > in the folder first.
Un and re-subbing isn't enough, you actually have to remove the group
(not just the posts).
> I wish I had doen that now. Iwent ahead and dowloaded all. and noe
> I have thousands of post to delete. Without a date shown in MD-II Ican
> only delete by thread. Oh well. . .
There is a way round it actually, I read it on the Wirenet site after
U-nets news server went tits up.
>From memory:
If you change the news server (to anything you like), MD will ask if
you want to reset the pointers. Click reset (or whatever it says),
then change the news server back to your news server. This time click
don't care.
When you check for news, it will come up saying that all your groups
are empty (even though there are messages in them), click to get the
last 100 articles ( I only bother with headers), go through the
groups, delete the duplicates and your groups should be up to date
with all previously downloaded messages still in place. Depending on
the number of groups you sub to, I would've thought that should take
less than 10 mins.
Matt
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http://www.mattbloomfield.co.uk
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