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Article #1317Re: easier way to receive newsgroup replies?
From: Bane of the Spammerz
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 00:00
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Solutions: 1) quit spamming 20 newsgroups at once, dildo. 2) quit using anything made by microsuck. Adrian Webb wrote: > > I've just recently got on to the internet and spent some time leaning how > to use atlantis mail as well as MS internet news. But with neither of these > can i just log on and automatically receive news messages to the article > that i posted in several newsgroups. It took me about ten minutes to go to > each > newsgroup and look for my subject and then look for Re:subject because > sometimes it seems some people don't quite reply properly to the newsgroup. > Then i have to expand the thread and select any replies. Then i have to do > this with all the other newsgroups i have sent to for each message! Luckily > with MS internet mail you can go to a newsgroup just by clicking on the > hyperlink which is a lot easier than having to remember all the newsgroups > (and subjects) that you have sent out to. Is this what everybody does or is > there some different software that everybody else is using? > > Many times people reply to *all* the newsgroups i sent to so i get a lot of > spam. I'd like also to be able to automatically save newsgroup replies to > me but after i log off i have to select all my messages to save them > (although i suppose i could do that online) but still i then have go to my > saved messages folder and delete all the spam. > > If i want to check to next day to see if i have received any more newsgroup > replies then i have to do this all again, although i can tell which > messages i have already downloaded but i have to do this within the number > of days i've selected in the options before downloaded messages are > deleted. Going to check to see if i've received any newsgroup replies is > some thing which i'd rather do every few days rather than every few hours > which is a hassle if your in a hurry to receive a messages. > > I have used the BBS network fidonet. Atleast with fidonet people replied to > you and not your subject. Receiving email replies is easy because its sent > to you unlike newsgroup replies. Why can't we have an option to see if > there have been any replies to a subject which you have sent out to the > newsgroups?
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 104458,b1f9bcec76f92683 X-Google-Attributes: gid104458,public X-Google-Thread: 10bca1,b1f9bcec76f92683 X-Google-Attributes: gid10bca1,public X-Google-Thread: f5ebf,b1f9bcec76f92683 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5ebf,public X-Google-Thread: 143fed,b1f9bcec76f92683 X-Google-Attributes: gid143fed,public X-Google-Thread: f81bf,b1f9bcec76f92683 X-Google-Attributes: gidf81bf,public X-Google-Thread: fa274,b1f9bcec76f92683 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa274,public X-Google-Thread: fb39a,b1f9bcec76f92683 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb39a,public X-Google-Thread: 1038a1,b1f9bcec76f92683 X-Google-Attributes: gid1038a1,public From: Bane of the Spammerz <beemer@earthling.net> Subject: Re: easier way to receive newsgroup replies? Date: 1997/12/15 Message-ID: <349554D8.4348@earthling.net> X-Deja-AN: 298390391 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <01bd08fb$d2251120$LocalHost@default> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: HAL Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: beemer@earthling.net Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet,alt.culture.internet,alt.internet,alt.internet.talk,at.fido.internet,claranet.local.chat,claranet.local.help,claranet.support,microsoft.public.internet.news