How to: Delete read message

Hi, this is my first time using mozilla newsgroups. How do I delete a
read message so that I do not have to slog through all previous ones to
get to the latest?
TIA

 

Try this:

VIEW - MESSAGES - THREADED and ALL.

Also, VIEW - THREAD - THREADS WITH UNREAD.

 

You don't.

In newsgroups, the messages are stored on the server, not on your
computer, as with pop3 email.

However, MozMail/News has a number of options for displaying message in
newsgroups. Click the View menu from the toolbar. If you click
View>>Threads, you can set the group to display all the messages,
threaded, threads with unread messages, preserving the entire thread for
review, or simply unread, which will display only unread messages.

In an active group, I usually use Threads with unread. You can play
around with the settings and see what best suits your needs.

Lee

 

Ed, you beat me! I think its only because you are more succinct then I
am.

Lee

 

Lee, only because my mind can't process much these days. I quit smoking
last Saturday so getting out one sentence responses here is pretty much
a great achievement for me! And, I'm proud to say, neither my wife nor
I have shed any blood so far in this grand adventure! No small animals,
nor UPS delivery persons, nor wandering missionaries, not anyone in our
personal household have yet disappeared!!! Amazing!

Now, I must admit, if you want a short-term buy advisory, go for Tootsie
Roll Pops and any toothpick manufacturer. 'Cause, like, whoa, talk
about trading one addiction for another. Sheesh. (Now, Shhh! Secret
discovery. I accidentally dropped a Cherry Tootsie Roll Pop into a
glass of straight Makers Mark Bourbon. Dang! I might be onto something
here!!! Should I call it a Mozilla Cocktail?)

 

I love it!!!!!! Though I am pretty much a beer only guy, it sounds like
it might be worth a try!

Hang in there with the quit smoking. My mother quit two years ago,
after a good 50 years plus of the habit, so there is hope.

I count myself fortunate, I never formed a smoking habit, and never
formed a coffee habit, never drink it at all.

Got to go, time for another beer!

Lee

 

Thanks for the encouragement, Lee. But, still, I'm willing to give up
one vice as long as I can maintain the others. In fact, I may be
getting even more locked into my morning Starbucks, USA Today, Atlatna
Journal Constitution, and Wall St. Journal. I figure if I can live
through that routine without a smoke I can get through the rest of the
day ok. ;-)

I do think I might be onto something with this Mozilla Cocktail idea.
Not sure if it actually tastes good or not but I am sure having a lot of
fun trying to figure that out. And it's sorta like an ashtray. You
know, someplace to put your smoke when you you're working on something
else (hey, just drop that pop into your shot glass!). I would have
thought that Makers Mark would severely erode a Tootsie Roll Pop in 10
or 15 minutes but, apparently, TRPs are pretty sturdy things and are
designed to only be degraded by human saliva. Hmmm. This presents
various chemical and biological questions I'm not sure I want to
investigate.

 

Followup (since I was about to ask the same question). Is there anyway
to delete the message headers? I mean, I can just leave it on Unread
and only see unread messages but it'd be nice to be able to clean things
up every once in a while.

Thanks,
Lyle
make me not retarded for email

 

Headers are retained for different lengths of times on different
servers. Try clicking on the oldest header showing. If its expired, you
will get a warning page. Click on "Click Here to remove Expired Headers.

For some reason I've never really understood, this opens another Moz
Mail window. Close the original window, and the only headers showing in
that group will be unexpired ones.

Lee

 

Ok, thanks for the quick response. I guess I just got used to Netscape
which did a purge of unread messages every so often (I think I set a
preference) and cleared 'em all out.

Lyle

 

In Leonidas Jones <> informed us:

|||| Hi, this is my first time using mozilla newsgroups. How do I
|||| delete a read message so that I do not have to slog through all
|||| previous ones to get to the latest?
|||| TIA
||||
|||
||| You don't.
|||
||| In newsgroups, the messages are stored on the server, not on your
||| computer, as with pop3 email.

<snip>

Am I understanding this correctly? It seems that once I've d/loaded NG
messages, then they're on my PC forever, or at least, until the server
deletes them, which could take months in some cases. Is there any way to
delete them, short of deleting the account and then resubscribing?

Tom

 

Tom
Servers dont keep messages forever, they usually keep them
for 30 days, tho some groups have shorter limits.

In any case, you can set Mozilla to delete them at an interval you
decide on.
For each news account
Edit-->Mail & Newsgroup Account Settings--><name>-->Offline & Disk Space
You can use the When its time to clean up settings to set the time frame
you wish to keep messagse for

So, messages from newsgroups will remain on your PC for as long as the
server keeps them or for as long as you decide.
Personally, I have some news servers set to 1 day, and others to 5, and
yet others to 30

 

In dantu <> informed us:
||
||
| Tom
| Servers dont keep messages forever, they usually keep them
| for 30 days, tho some groups have shorter limits.
|
| In any case, you can set Mozilla to delete them at an interval you
| decide on.
| For each news account
| Edit-->Mail & Newsgroup Account Settings--><name>-->Offline & Disk
| Space You can use the When its time to clean up settings to set the
| time frame you wish to keep messagse for
|

Bingo! That's the part I was looking for! Thanks Dantu.