Thunderbird newsgroups: get older messages

[gapka]

I just started using Thunderbird to subscribe to newsgroups. Actually I
just started subscribing to newsgroups altogether. I would be happy if
someone could point me to some good documentation regarding Thunderbird
as a newsreader.

Meanwhile I have a question:
After making my account (eg here at news.mozilla.org) the first time
that I logged in, it fetched some messages (I think it was 500 messages)
and since then I can see new posts coming, but is there a way to ask for
more of these older messages?

[WaltS]

Try File > Get Next 500 News Messages.

[Keith Nuttle]

In the Account settings there is a parameter that tells TB the maximum
number of newsgroups to import. I ran the number up to over 1600 but I
don't know the limit

Alternatively you can just uncheck it and download the 10's of thousands
on each newsgroup.

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

gapka wrote:

> I just started using Thunderbird to subscribe to newsgroups. Actually I
> just started subscribing to newsgroups altogether. I would be happy if
> someone could point me to some good documentation regarding Thunderbird
> as a newsreader.

Thunderbird, in my opinion, is an email client that happens to also be
capable of reading NNTP newsgroups. It is not a full-fledged real
newsreader, thus lacks features that many desire. It doesn't have very
good filtering capabilities, and will not mark cross-posted messages as
read in the second group.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Usenet_newsreaders

> Meanwhile I have a question:
> After making my account (eg here at news.mozilla.org) the first time
> that I logged in, it fetched some messages (I think it was 500 messages)
> and since then I can see new posts coming, but is there a way to ask for
> more of these older messages?

Seems you accepted the "last 500 posts" in a dialog box. To get older
ones, see the Account Settings for the news server, under "Server
Settings"m for the option "Ask me before downloading more than [ nnn]
messages". Unsubscribe, then resubscribe to the group and change the
number to something higher, say "3000" or whatever.

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[David E. Ross]

This depends on the news server to which you are subscribing. Some
retain old messages for 2-5 years, some for a shorter period.


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[gapka]

On 10/27/2013 02:13 PM, WaltS wrote:
> Try File > Get Next 500 News Messages.

Thank you all for your replies.
The above tip from WaltS was what I was looking for.