Good one JIP.
Glad to help.
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Cheers,
Peter
(Windows Vista Home Premium with Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606)
"There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Shakespeare
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"JIP" <fred@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:eBUJmAZoIHA.2160@xxxxxx
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> "Peter.R" <Peter.R@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> From what I can tell, we have to subscribe to a newsgroup before it will
>> be listed in the 'Select Newsgroup' dialog box when creating that rule. So
>> I suspect that that newsgroup also has to be subscribed to in the news
>> account we want the rule applied to. It will then be listed under that
>> account in the 'Select Newsgroup' dialog box, and we would need to select
>> it there when creating that rule.
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>> In other words, I think you have to subscribe to the alt.usenet.kooks
>> newsgroup within the account you want the rule applied to, then create a
>> new rule where you select that newsgroup under that account in the 'Select
>> Newsgroup' dialog box.
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>> I would be interested to know if the rule still works after you
>> unsubscribe to the newsgroup selected in that rule.
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>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Peter
>> (Windows Vista Home Premium with Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606)
>> "There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in
>> your philosophy." - Shakespeare
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>> "JIP" <fred@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> Hi, I have a message rule that says "Apply this rule after the message
>>> arrives Where the message is on alt.usenet.kooks newsgroup Delete it "
>>> The theory is that it will automatically delete posts that have been
>>> crossposted to that group. It used to work in Outlook Expres, and I'm
>>> trying
>>> it in WLM to see if it still works.
>>>
>>>
>>> Now, on my ISPs newsgroup server, that group never shows any messages
>>> because they are deleted by the rule. However, I subscribed to the group
>>> on
>>> another server that I use, and messages are being downloaded. I would
>>> have
>>> thought the rule would be independent of the server? So why are messages
>>> being deleted from the group on one server, but not the other?
>>>
>>> Thanks
> Spot on - created a new rule and selected the group on the other server, and
> it worked.
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> No idea if it will work after unsubscribing, but will experiment on that.
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> Many thanks