Vista - useful new newsgroups feature

This is not a help topic but a congrats to MS for adding a tiny thing to
make newsgroups usage better.
Yesterday I rebuilt my laptop OS with XP and Vista and when I subscribed to
my usual newsgroups and re-downloaded messages it automatically marked my
threads as watched (those that were within the 300 header initial download).
This is an extremely useful addition as when rebuilding an OS I often have a
number of threads which I wish to retain and sometimes they can be hard to
find.

Good catch!

"Beck" <beck@removephotoscene.co.uk> wrote in message
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> This is not a help topic but a congrats to MS for adding a tiny thing to
> make newsgroups usage better.
> Yesterday I rebuilt my laptop OS with XP and Vista and when I subscribed
> to my usual newsgroups and re-downloaded messages it automatically marked
> my threads as watched (those that were within the 300 header initial
> download).
> This is an extremely useful addition as when rebuilding an OS I often have
> a number of threads which I wish to retain and sometimes they can be hard
> to find.

"Beck" <beck@removephotoscene.co.uk> wrote in message
news:OHYCXfbmGHA.5076@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> This is not a help topic but a congrats to MS for adding a tiny thing to
> make newsgroups usage better.
> Yesterday I rebuilt my laptop OS with XP and Vista and when I subscribed
> to my usual newsgroups and re-downloaded messages it automatically marked
> my threads as watched (those that were within the 300 header initial
> download).
> This is an extremely useful addition as when rebuilding an OS I often have
> a number of threads which I wish to retain and sometimes they can be hard
> to find.


Actually, the "300 header initial download' can be ALL the headers on the
Newsgroups, if wanted. Just adjust the number of headers downloaded (ALL
the time, not just the "initial" download) each time.

I have mine set to 1000, which will just about get all of 1-3 days' posts.

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"Donald McDaniel" <orthocross@wildblue.invalid> wrote in message
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> "Beck" <beck@removephotoscene.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:OHYCXfbmGHA.5076@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> This is not a help topic but a congrats to MS for adding a tiny thing to
>> make newsgroups usage better.
>> Yesterday I rebuilt my laptop OS with XP and Vista and when I subscribed
>> to my usual newsgroups and re-downloaded messages it automatically marked
>> my threads as watched (those that were within the 300 header initial
>> download).
>> This is an extremely useful addition as when rebuilding an OS I often
>> have a number of threads which I wish to retain and sometimes they can be
>> hard to find.
>
>
> Actually, the "300 header initial download' can be ALL the headers on the
> Newsgroups, if wanted. Just adjust the number of headers downloaded (ALL
> the time, not just the "initial" download) each time.
>
> I have mine set to 1000, which will just about get all of 1-3 days' posts.

Yep, I just leave it at the default though :-)