Re: Newsgroups & compacting
Big Al <[email protected]>
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On 1/13/21 9:01 PM, this is what J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 at 16:32:12, David E. Ross <not_me@not_there.invalid> wrote (my responses usually follow points raised): >> On 1/13/2021 3:27 PM, Big Al wrote: >>> I know you can compact mailboxes and mail folders etc, but the same doesn't seem to be available in newsgroups. Is that the nature of the >>> beast? No messages are downloaded just the headers? >>> Al >>> >> >> That is correct. >> > Text-only news postings compact just as well as any other text. I don't know whether any news clients actually offer compaction. > > I'm not sure if you're asking or stating by your last sentence, but if you're asking: yes, certainly news clients have existed that download > only the headers; whether any current ones have that ability, I again don't know. I got the answer. I guess my questions were just rhetorical, as I was almost sure I had the answer. At least the lack of 'compact' on newsgroups in the right click menu was a dead giveaway. Al -- Linux Mint Cinnamon 20.1 64bit, Dell Inspiron 5570 laptop Quad Core i7-8550U, 16G Memory, 512G SSD, 750G & 1TB HDDs _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/general