Re: Newsgroups & compacting
Daniel <[email protected]>
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Big Al wrote on 14/01/21 14:45: > 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 > I would have thought that the message text/pictures/etc would be downloaded into your cache, so when the cache got full, it got over-written or, when you cleared cache, it was cleared. -- Daniel User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.53.5.1 Build identifier: 20201115194905 Linux User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171015235623 _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/general