Vista - Re: Unread count in newsgroups

"Michael Walraven" <mexxwalraven@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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....I have always been surprised that that works at all.
Try using netcap (or Ethereal) to capture whatever OE does
e.g. when the interval expires. E.g. does it do a LIST command
and then update the statistics for all your subscribed newsgroups
in one go or does it actually issue separate GROUP commands
for each of your subscriptions? I can't think of any other way that
those statistics might be updated automatically using that option.

BTW do you have the option checked which says that you want
to be notified of new newsgroups? If the desired functionality
is being provided by the LIST command you would probably
have to have that option checked (otherwise there wouldn't be
as much reason to use that command, especially after you had
entered a newsgroup.)

In effect then you are forcing WLM to use the second implementation
that I speculated about above (GROUP commands for each subscribed
newsgroup). See if you can get your desired result (I.e fresh statistics)
simply by switching accounts. That would be exploiting a LIST
command implementation instead.

Otherwise, I suppose you could schedule an equivalent script
which would do a SendKeys of Ctrl-Shift-M appropriately... ; )
This reminds me that I have been meaning to try to find out if PowerShell
could support such functionality (more particularly enable simple workarounds
in the form of keyboard macros, for other deficiencies that I have found
in the WLM UI.)


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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