On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:35:55 +0100, "Mike Lyle"
wrote:



Thanks. I'll look into those angles. (And, yes, OE's clunky way of
blocking messages from specified groups _does_ require you to
subscribe and then instruct the program to delete all messages from
them. My suspicion at present is that it actually carries out the
instruction only for messages _originating_ from the specified group.
OE is of no interest to M$.)

Mike, I've been interested by your posts and am obviously missing the
point. What is the purpose of subscribing to a group and then deleting
the messages ? I have even set up OE again to see how it functions -
I use Agent - and the rule works if you, for example set the messages
to be a certain colour, but are only deleted if you access the rule
and click on ' Apply now ' when it works.

I suspect it is just a quirk, to avoid having a separate list of
instructions, simply for Newsgroups.

Andy