Windows Live Mail / WIndows 8

[Frank Berger]

Installed Windows Live Mail in Windows 8. Subscribed to RMCR. Only have
295 messages, none from today. Can find a way to download more messages.
Also when I sort on date, the messages are not sorted correctly. Same
problem as in Thunderbird. Weird.

[David Fox]

It sounds like the problem lies with the whatever Usenet provider you're
using, not your choice of client program.

DF

[Frank Berger]

I figured out what was wrong. I had to "ungroup" the messages. All's well
know. Probably that will fix the apparent problem in Thunderbird as well.
As is, Live Mail seems to be working fine, except that the messages only go
back a few days and I can't figure out how to get more. I'm signing on to
the same news server as in Windows Mail on the Vista machine.

[William Sommerwerck]

> As is, Live Mail seems to be working fine, except that

> the messages...

I assume you mean "us", "UseNet"...

> ...only go back a few days and I can't figure out how
> to get more.

You can tell it to download 300 messages at a time. (You can choose other
quantities.) It will load the last 300, and each time you request a download,
it will pick up right after the last one.

[Frank Berger]

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"William Sommerwerck" wrote in message news:knltkm$es8$1...@dont-email.me...

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Perhaps you can, but you haven't told me how. Another apparent problem I
see now is that it as the same quoting problem as Outlook Express had. I
don’t know if there is a fix for that like there was for OE. In fact, the
OE fix worked for Windows Mail.
This sucks.

[William Sommerwerck]

>> You can tell it to download 300 messages at a time.

> Perhaps you can, but you haven't told me how.

I'm just trying to be a good Conservative and not spoon-feed you handouts.

This is in the ribbon. Select the Home tab, then click Send/Receive and select
Update Newgroups. You might also try clicking Get next 300 headers.

[Frank Berger]

"William Sommerwerck" wrote in message news:knm829$4n1$1...@dont-email.me...

Clicking to get the next 300 headers does nothing, unfortunately. The
messages only go back to 5/20. As you can see, there is no quoting of the
earlier messages above. I suppose they only anticipate top posting, which
would work better if you don't quote.

[Frank Berger]

I've gone back to Thunderbird. Now that I've figured out that the "date
problem" was only an artifact due to threading, I've turned threading
off and am very happy. I've even "killfiled" one person. If you reply
to this message and I don't answer, it's you.

[O]

In article <25-dnXa0GqoZcwPM...@supernews.com>, Frank

When the phone don't ring, you'll know it's Frank.

-Owen

[William Sommerwerck]

> Clicking to get the next 300 headers does nothing, unfortunately.

It should, because when I switched to WLM, I used that (or the "catch up"
command -- don't remember which) to initialize each UseNet group.

> As you can see, there is no quoting of the earlier messages above.

This is a problem with WLM. As it would be a trivial matter to code, I don't
understand why it wasn't implemented.

[John Wiser]

"Frank Berger" <frankd...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:25-dnXa0GqoZcwPM...@supernews.com...

One can only hope...

jdw