Vista - Deleting Newsgroup Messages

Is there any way to delete/purge newsgroup headers and messages after a set
amount of days? I have tried setting a number of days under
Options/Adv/Maint to 5 days after downloading the message but nothing
happens. I am subscribed to this newsgroup and my messages have been
accumulating for a few months. I know I can delete them manually but maybe I
am overlooking something. Thanks, ron

Hi, it was not working in Windows Mail and is neither in WLM
Wath i do is setting it messages ...delete after x-days : select all the
newsgroups and execute it manually each month.

Regards
Huib

"Ron" <ronco@xxxxxx> schreef in bericht
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Although it's not entirely clear from the Maintenance option, that
setting refers to the message bodies only. The headers remain. It's
been that way since Outlook Express.

If your concern is disk space, then the message body is the bulk of the
space and that setting would be helping you.

If you also want to get rid of the headers, you can semi-automate that
by using a News message rule to delete messages after a given number of
days. But you'll need to manually apply it from time to time (e.g. once
per week). If you have multiple new accounts (news servers) you'll need
to apply to each news server in turn.

If you do nothing, the news messages (including headers) will be deleted
when the news server does. In the case of the Microsoft news server
that's after 90 days. Other news servers have their own policies and it
might be shorter or longer. It may even vary by newsgroup.


--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



"Ron" <ronco@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Click on "View" in the Menu, now click the "Hide read or ignored messages"
tab. Go back to Newsgroup you were reading and right click it, now click the
"Catch Up" tab and all of the old messages will be gone.
You will have to do this for all of your subscribed to newsgroups to get rid
of all the old or ignored msgs.

"Ron" <ronco@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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oops, forgot to say go to "Show or hide" after "View" and then the "Hide
read.......etc