Outlook Express, downloading newsgroup headers

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DRuM
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Outlook Express, downloading newsgroup headers

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In my outlook express, if I'm on a newsgroup such as 'drumming' and it says for example, 5000 new messages not downloaded, I can only download 1000 at a time. In Tools/Options/Read/News, there's a tab which says:

'Get (> insert number here <) headers at a time'.

If I type a number higher than 1000 in the box, a new box then comes up and says: ' Please enter a number between 50 and 1000 for downloading headers '.

Is there a way around this so that I can download all the newsgroup messages for that newsgroup in one go or at least, a higher amount? Thanks.
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Post by axbaby »

don't know neighbour .. i use dejanews "i see google now owns it" to look at newsgroups.

music
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups/di ... 2,16823550

link to keyword drumming
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q= ... t_s=Search
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Re: Outlook Express, downloading newsgroup headers

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DRuM wrote:In my outlook express, if I'm on a newsgroup such as 'drumming' and it says for example, 5000 new messages not downloaded, I can only download 1000 at a time. In Tools/Options/Read/News, there's a tab which says:

'Get (> insert number here <) headers at a time'.

If I type a number higher than 1000 in the box, a new box then comes up and says: ' Please enter a number between 50 and 1000 for downloading headers '.

Is there a way around this so that I can download all the newsgroup messages for that newsgroup in one go or at least, a higher amount? Thanks.
Edit outlook.exe and make the limit different...
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Post by +JuggerNaut+ »

i would think that Thunderbird would be better for you Drummeh
DRuM
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Post by DRuM »

Bacon wrote:
Edit outlook.exe and make the limit different...
I don't have an outlook.exe. Maybe that's for outlook and not outlook express.

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:i would think that Thunderbird would be better for you Drummeh
Hmm, I'll give it a whirl. If it's no good though juggly, I'll not be sending you any more of that tellytubbies candy you like. Oops, didn't mean to let that secret out. :!:
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Post by SoM »

google Xnews

imo, ur isp is restricting you to how many you can get..

just like my isp restricted me to 20-30kb/s, i quit using newsgroups..
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DRuM wrote:
+JuggerNaut+ wrote:i would think that Thunderbird would be better for you Drummeh
Hmm, I'll give it a whirl. If it's no good though juggly, I'll not be sending you any more of that tellytubbies candy you like. Oops, didn't mean to let that secret out. :!:
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let me know what you think or if you have any questions. i've been using it for almost a year now.
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Ah, I just found out that all I needed to do is uncheck the get headers box, and it then downloads every single header in a newsgroup automatically. :p
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DRuM wrote:Ah, I just found out that all I needed to do is uncheck the get headers box, and it then downloads every single header in a newsgroup automatically. :p
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