Re: Thunderbird - Newsgroups - Deleting messages

On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 21:37:13 -0500, in message
 <[email protected]>, Richard L Walker wrote:

> As an old Agent user, I'm used to deleting messages when I'm done with
> them.  1)  How does one make messages that have been read (or that
> aren't desired) disappear when reading newsgroups with Thunderbird?
> 2) Attachments of jpg, gif and other formats aren't displaying at all.
> Is there a problem with YENC or decoding certain formats while using
> Thunderbird?


1)  Agent and Thunderbird are fundamentally two different types of
    news readers.

    Agent's default mode of operation is like an off-line reader.
    a.  Once a message is downloaded, it stays in your local message 
        store and can be read without downloading it again.
    b.  You have to specifically request a message to be downloaded
        (this stops you accidentally filling your local message store).
        Simply selecting a message in the message list pane is not 
        enough to download it.
    c.  You can keep specific messages in the newsgroup indefinitely.

    Thunderbird's default mode of operation is like an on-line reader.
    a.  By default, messages are not stored in your local message store.
    b.  You select a message, Thunderbird automatically downloads it so 
        that you can read it.  You de-select the message (say by 
        selecting a different message instead) and the first message's 
        body is immediately purged from your PC.  You select the first 
        message again, and Thunderbird downloads it again. 
    c.  If you want to keep a message, you drag it from the newsgroup
        into a folder. 

    So to answer your question "How does one make messages [...]
    disappear", you delete the message body simply by de-selecting
    the message.  Agent and Thunderbird have two entirely different 
    models of operation.  Whichever reader you use, you are going to 
    have to adapt to using its model of operation.


    Thunderbird does have a setting to allow off-line reading, but 
    as you have not said whether you are using this setting or not, 
    I will assume (perhaps rightly, perhaps wrongly) that you have 
    not yet looked at it and would not be using it.

    Tools -> Options -> (news server) -> Offline & Disk Space


-- 
Cheers,
Ralph

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.