On Mon, 03 May 2004 09:36:50 +0200, martin wrote:


Yeah but Pam misoperates a kill file.
I wasted my time finding the last abc .. and reposting it for her. I
won't trouble again.

Thank you for posting it Martin.
I have never set a killfile and would not know how to!
Large messages ask me to press Enter to retrieve.
Anyone else use FREE AGENT and tell me where I am going wrong?
TAI

Pam in Bristol

On Sun, 02 May 2004 22:10:33 +0100, Pam Moore
wrote:


As I said, "abc for newcomers" has not appeared on my list since
18/10/03. I have been looking for it.
Still mystified.

Pam in Bristol

Sorry if this is obvious to you - have you somehow marked the thread
to be ignored?

Regards, VivienB

The message Yrdlc.64$D9.54@newsfe1-win
from "Bella" contains these words:

I found the FAQs in Google Groups last week, but I'm blessed if I could
fiind *anything* about top posting Janet.

?? The FAQs ,Frequently Asked Questions, are about garden stuff. If it
was you I mentioned top-posting to, I would probably have directed you
to the abc post for additional posting hints.

Bottom posting is the usual convention in this group; it means posting
in conversational order; questions above, answers/comments below. Some
people ignore habitual top-posters because their back to front
conversation is so disruptive to threads, latecomers can't make sense of
the conversation.

Janet.

On Mon, 03 May 2004 11:22:06 +0100, Pam Moore
wrote:

Anyone else use FREE AGENT and tell me where I am going wrong?
TAI

Look at the menus at the top. Under Window, open usenet filters, and
see if you have inadvertently blocked it there.

There is somewhere that you can set the maximum length of messages to
d/l, but I can't find it at the moment. However, if a message is too
long to download, you get the header, and an option to retrieve it.
So I don't think that's it.

Glenys

--
Semen is an anti-depressant.

On Mon, 03 May 2004 11:22:06 +0100, Pam Moore
wrote:

Anyone else use FREE AGENT and tell me where I am going wrong?
TAI

Found it now! You can adjust the maximum message length recieved
under groups/default properties/recieved.

Glenys

--
Semen is an anti-depressant.

On Mon, 03 May 2004 12:16:19 +0100, MissJuggs
wrote:

groups/default properties/recieved.

that should be Group/default properties/retrieve. Oops.

Glenys

--
Semen is an anti-depressant.

The message
from Alan Gould contains these words:
In article Yrdlc.64$D9.54@newsfe1-win, Bella
writes

I found the FAQs in Google Groups last week, but I'm blessed if I could
fiind *anything* about top posting Janet.

Top or bottom posting is entirely optional anywhere on the Internet.

As is bothering to read top-posted replies.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

The message
from Alan Gould contains these words:

So Top is or alternate bottom word posting posting is but entirely it
optional makes
anywhere reading on newsgroups the awful Internet hard.


Janet.

Alan Gould wrote in message ...
In article Yrdlc.64$D9.54@newsfe1-win, Bella
writes
I found the FAQs in Google Groups last week, but I'm blessed if I could
fiind *anything* about top posting Janet.

Top or bottom posting is entirely optional anywhere on the Internet.

Of course it is: we couldn't dictate our preferred styles to anybody
even if we wanted to. But life is certainly a lot easier if we stick
to any particular group's usual practice. Even if one wants to
top-post in a bottom-posting group, one will get more out of the
discussion by resisting the urge. It's no trouble to me to stand on
one side or another of an escalator, so why should I inconvenience
others, and myself, by not going with the majority?

Mike.

On Mon, 03 May 2004 11:22:06 +0100, Pam Moore
wrote:

On Mon, 03 May 2004 09:36:50 +0200, martin wrote:


Yeah but Pam misoperates a kill file.
I wasted my time finding the last abc .. and reposting it for her. I
won't trouble again.

Thank you for posting it Martin.
I have never set a killfile and would not know how to!
Large messages ask me to press Enter to retrieve.
Anyone else use FREE AGENT and tell me where I am going wrong?
TAI

Pam in Bristol

Pam, the headers say you are using Agent (rather than Free Agent).
This is important because the Free version does not have all the
functions the paid-for full version does.

The comments which follow are based on what happens in my Agent 1.9.
(I know the 'Help' in Agent is in techie-speak, or I would suggest you
try using it).

If the thread is set to be 'ignored' (ie no more messages to be
downloaded in that thread) it should have a 'no entry' type red symbol
beside the subject line in the message list. This is added or removed
easily using the button at the top of the window.

Limitations on the length of messages downloaded are in the newsgroup
properties. To see these, right-click the newsgroup name in your list
of subscribed groups, then click on Properties, which is at the top of
the menu which appears.

HTH

Regards, VivienB

On Mon, 03 May 2004 12:17:11 +0100, MissJuggs
wrote:


that should be Group/default properties/retrieve.

Thanks Martin.
No Usenet filters set.
BUT message length set at 100. Either the original default or the way
my son set it. I'm wiser now! Being partially sighted doesn't help.


Pam in Bristol

On Mon, 03 May 2004 14:32:27 +0100, VivienB
wrote:

Pam, the headers say you are using Agent (rather than Free Agent).
This is important because the Free version does not have all the
functions the paid-for full version does.

Thanks Vivien
Oh dear, I am showing my ignorance here. I always thought I was using
Free Agent but it is not!! (Again I blame my son. He sets these
things up for me, comes and fiddles and doesn't tell me what he's
done!)
I will struggle my way through the Help files if I have further
problems before making a fool of myself.
I'll shut up now!


Pam in Bristol

The message
from Sacha contains these words:

Normal in this group is bottom posting because it's considered more logical.
Certainly I've seen arguments in groups about top posting, never about
bottom posting!
Some urglers don't bother to answer top posts.

Here, (on this computer) they're usually deleted unread.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

On Mon, 03 May 2004 11:22:06 +0100, Pam Moore
wrote:

On Mon, 03 May 2004 09:36:50 +0200, martin wrote:


Yeah but Pam misoperates a kill file.
I wasted my time finding the last abc .. and reposting it for her. I
won't trouble again.

Thank you for posting it Martin.

I am pleased you received it :-)

I have never set a killfile and would not know how to!

I thought you were killing on file length.

Large messages ask me to press Enter to retrieve.
Anyone else use FREE AGENT and tell me where I am going wrong?
TAI

I use the real thing Agent 2.0 . In Options
INBOUND MAIL
"checking for e-mail" there is an option to ignore anything over a
certain size. I guess that there is something similar in Free Agent.

On Mon, 03 May 2004 15:07:48 +0100, Pam Moore
wrote:

On Mon, 03 May 2004 12:17:11 +0100, MissJuggs
wrote:


that should be Group/default properties/retrieve.

Thanks Martin.

Thank the lady with the Juggs.

No Usenet filters set.
BUT message length set at 100.

change it to something big like 9999999999999999

Either the original default or the way
my son set it. I'm wiser now! Being partially sighted doesn't help.

sorry to here that.