Xnews question....

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Hi, it is embrassing to ask this, given that I have been using
Xnews all along.

I have been using Xnews for long and never pay much attention
to the "Q" column on the message header's list, until one day
I unintentionally click on it with a mouse and it assign a
"score" on it. What exactly does this do? Could anyone
enlighten me? Thank you.






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Hi, it is embrassing to ask this, given that I have been using
Xnews all along.

I have been using Xnews for long and never pay much attention
to the "Q" column on the message header's list, until one day
I unintentionally click on it with a mouse and it assign a
"score" on it. What exactly does this do? Could anyone
enlighten me? Thank you.
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I don't use XNews I use Dialog, but won't the answer to your question be in
the help section ?
 
R. L. said:
Hi, it is embrassing to ask this, given that I have been using
Xnews all along.

I have been using Xnews for long and never pay much attention
to the "Q" column on the message header's list, until one day
I unintentionally click on it with a mouse and it assign a
"score" on it. What exactly does this do? Could anyone
enlighten me? Thank you.
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Rarely use Xnews, but I believe this is a way of rating things. I could be
wrong, of course. ;)
 
R. L. said:
Hi, it is embrassing to ask this, given that I have been using
Xnews all along.

I have been using Xnews for long and never pay much attention
to the "Q" column on the message header's list, until one day
I unintentionally click on it with a mouse and it assign a
"score" on it. What exactly does this do? Could anyone
enlighten me? Thank you.
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It has to do with queing.

Here's what it says in the manual...

Q: How do I decode/save/transfer several articles at once?

A: Xnews uses a queuing system. To put an article into the queue, press
Space. Pressing space again removes it from the queue. When you queue an
article, you will see a number indicating its queue order in the Q
column. Now, select Article | Decode/Save as... or Transfer | (folder).
You can also queue/dequeue an entire thread at a time.

Hope that helps. :)
 
I don't use XNews I use Dialog, but won't the answer to
your question be in the help section ?
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Yes, it is, but I can't figure out what "queue" actually does
in a practical sense, here is what I found:

"Q: ... decode/save/transfer several articles at once?

A: Xnews uses a queuing system. To put an article into the
queue, press Space. Pressing space again removes it from the
queue. When you queue an article, you will see a number
indicating its queue order in the Q column. Now, select
Article | Decode/Save as... or Transfer | (folder). You can
also queue/dequeue an entire thread at a time."

I wonder what is it different from filtering or scoring.


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I wonder what is it different from filtering or scoring.
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No relation whatsoever! You typically use queing when you want to download
multipart binaries (like MP3s, for example).
 
No relation whatsoever! You typically use queing when you
want to download multipart binaries (like MP3s, for
example).
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Oh, I see...so I never do binaries, I won't have use of it
then :-) thanks


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No relation whatsoever! You typically use queing when you want to
download multipart binaries (like MP3s, for example).
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Just to add to that, it's used whether the binaries are single- or
multi-part. The queue can also be used when using Xnews as an offline
newsreader[1] for text groups; you queue the headers you want to
download, then go online and select 'fetch to storage' to pull the
queued posts.

[1] Xnews was not designed with offline reading in mind, and I don't
recommend it, but it's possible.
 
I don't use XNews I use Dialog, but won't the answer to your question be in
the help section ?
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i decided to try Dialog. Very good prog. Just a little problem. How can i
download a message just by clicking in the subject? (like thunderbird) It
seems that i have to double-click to download. Is there an option to change
this behavior?

thank you.
 
i decided to try Dialog. Very good prog. Just a little problem. How can i
download a message just by clicking in the subject? (like thunderbird) It
seems that i have to double-click to download. Is there an option to change
this behavior?

thank you.
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Strange! Mine open with a single click -
Try this
Settings/general settings/navigation/
tick all boxes in top set except the first one (that is how mine is set up)
and see if that does the trick.
http://www.copelands.plus.com/val/
 
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:53:58 +0100, Aries wrote:

thank you for your reply,
well... does not work. :(
i still need to double-click the item to download it.

thanks anyway...
 
thank you for your reply,
well... does not work. :(
i still need to double-click the item to download it.

thanks anyway...
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If you post the question to news.software.readers with DIALOG in the subject
heading you should get the answer to your query. HTH :)
 
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:53:58 +0100, Aries wrote:

thank you for your reply,
well... does not work. :(
i still need to double-click the item to download it.

thanks anyway...
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Try this: http://tinyurl.com/5f2wa
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jason said:
It has to do with queing.

Here's what it says in the manual...

Q: How do I decode/save/transfer several articles at once?

A: Xnews uses a queuing system. To put an article into the queue, press
Space. Pressing space again removes it from the queue. When you queue an
article, you will see a number indicating its queue order in the Q
column. Now, select Article | Decode/Save as... or Transfer | (folder).
You can also queue/dequeue an entire thread at a time.
Click to expand...

So this is how I use it. Lets say I'm in alt.artwork.group. Someone post a
series of pics I like and there are 100 pics in the series. He was good
enough to also post a index so I know I want all the pics. I queue them all
up. Then I go off and read some more articles and see someone posted
another series but I only want a few of these so I queue those up. Then i
go off and read some more post about this and that and find its time for
aqua teen hunger force to come on so I hit the decode button and dump all
of my queued up pics somewhere on my computer while I go and watch
cartoons.

Or sometimes I will just queue up a series and download everything posted
and use a duplicate file remover to get rid of dups. Saves time because
I'm not looking at each file.
 
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