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Auntie Em

I subscribe to A LOT of newsgroups and sometimes I just want to keep up with
conversations that I am having, rather than download a zillion file headers
and wade through them for my "watch conversation" posts.

It would be heaven if there were such a tool that would download ONLY those
headers that I have flagged as "watch" (from ALL the newsgroups that I
subscribe to) and put them in a nice neat little folder so I could
read/reply to them - and them alone.

Does anything like this exist? Oh how happy I would be if it did.

Em
 
Yeah...it's been out for about 200 years and it was called News Hound or
News Fox or some such. You plugged in your servers and what you were
searching for in subject lines then it pulled posts that would fit those
criteria.
 
I subscribe to A LOT of newsgroups and sometimes I just want to keep up with
conversations that I am having, rather than download a zillion file headers
and wade through them for my "watch conversation" posts.

It would be heaven if there were such a tool that would download ONLY those
headers that I have flagged as "watch" (from ALL the newsgroups that I
subscribe to) and put them in a nice neat little folder so I could
read/reply to them - and them alone.

Does anything like this exist? Oh how happy I would be if it did.

Em
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Hmm, you can try 40tude dialog News Reader instead of Outlook Express
download from http://www.40tude.com/dialog/
Then go to Group --> Message Views
There you can chose what you want to see :
All, Unread, Messages With Bodies, and you
can create custom view - watched messages
 
Hmm, you can try 40tude dialog News Reader instead of Outlook Express
download from http://www.40tude.com/dialog/
Then go to Group --> Message Views
There you can chose what you want to see :
All, Unread, Messages With Bodies, and you
can create custom view - watched messages
Click to expand...

Although Outlook express does offer the same feature
Martin
 
Martin Roth said:
Although Outlook express does offer the same feature
Martin
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I am aware that you can use the filter option (under rules) to filter the
messages to do just about anything you want them to do. The drawback to
this is that you sill have to go into each individual newsgroup to update
the new headers (or have the computer do this automatically while you sit
there and hum something). Then you have to configure a "rule" to handle
each watched thread. This would be an immensly time consuming matter and
wouldn't save that much time over just downloading the whole mess and
slogging through it, which is what I have been doing.

I was hoping for something that you could just "tick" and then the program
would take over from there.

I checked out newshound and it doesn't sound like what I am looking for
either. It delivers the messages to you via an web-like interface, but I
don't know if it allow you the option to reply to the thread from it.

Em
 
On Sat, 1 May 2004 17:48:35 -0500, "Auntie Em" <Auntie
I subscribe to A LOT of newsgroups and sometimes I just want to keep up with
conversations that I am having, rather than download a zillion file headers
and wade through them for my "watch conversation" posts.
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Have a look at Forte Agent. The following is from their help file.

Regards, Fred

Watching Threads

When you're browsing though messages and come upon one that you know
you'll be interested in responses to, select Watch Thread from the
Message menu or press "W." The Watch Thread icon, , will appear next
to the message. Agent automatically retrieves the bodies of all
responses to watched threads when retrieving message headers.
Note: When you watch a thread with unretrieved messages, Agent
automatically marks all the unretrieved messages in the thread for
retrieval and, if the selected message is unretrieved, skips to the
next unread message (outside of the current thread). To retrieve the
marked messages, select Get Marked Message Bodies from the Online menu
(for details, see How to Use Agent as an Offline Newsreader). To keep
Agent from skipping to the next unread message, uncheck the "Watching
an unread message skips to the next unread message" box on the
Navigation panel of the General Preferences dialog.

Ignoring Threads

The opposite of watching threads is ignoring threads. When you run
across a message that you know you won't be interested in responses
to, select Ignore Thread from the Message menu or press "I." The
Ignore Thread icon, , will appear next to all the messages in the
thread. After that, each time you retrieve new headers, Agent will
not retrieve any new headers in the ignored thread. This can
significantly reduce the number of new, unread messages presented to
you each time you get new message headers.

Note: After you ignore a thread, Agent automatically skips to the
next unread message. To turn this behavior off (keep the focus on the
current message), uncheck the "Watching an unread message skips to the
next unread message" box on the Navigation panel of the General
Preferences dialog.
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Auntie said:
I am aware that you can use the filter option (under rules) to filter
the messages to do just about anything you want them to do. The
drawback to this is that you sill have to go into each individual
newsgroup to update the new headers (or have the computer do this
automatically while you sit there and hum something). Then you have
to configure a "rule" to handle each watched thread. This would be
an immensly time consuming matter and wouldn't save that much time
over just downloading the whole mess and slogging through it, which
is what I have been doing.
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If you have so many newsgroups to download, I would look at Hamster, a lokal
Newsserver. And I did not mean the Option with rules but with "views" in
Outlook express (I am translating these menu items from German, so maybe
they dont are completely correct).
Just a couple of days ago, I found that in "views/Actual Views" you can
define a View that does only show up post you marked to watch.
This is lighing fast (after downloading all the junk, you are right - but
any program will have to do so to see whats of your interest and what is
not) and in my opinion most useful.
Look at screenshots at http://www-ang.uni-graz.at/~rothm/Clipboard1.gif and
http://www-ang.uni-graz.at/~rothm/Clipboard2.gif

Kind regards
 
I checked out newshound and it doesn't sound like what I am
looking for either. It delivers the messages to you via an
web-like interface, but I don't know if it allow you the option to
reply to the thread from it.
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X-news. You can use the score file to score replies to your posts and
then use the built-in filters to show only those posts.
 
On Sun, 2 May 2004 12:51:23 +0200, "Martin Roth"

in
Outlook express (I am translating these menu items from German, so maybe
they dont are completely correct).
Just a couple of days ago, I found that in "views/Actual Views" you can
define a View that does only show up post you marked to watch.
Click to expand...

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One can set up Agent, and Dialog, to only display "watched" posts as
well.

Regards, John.

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