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wanton

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Jun 13, 2009, 8:41:35 PM6/13/09
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Does not work

G. R. Woodring

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Jun 13, 2009, 9:47:25 PM6/13/09
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Date: 6/13/2009 8:41 PM, Author: wanton Wrote:
> Does not work

The feature works in Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 and Thunderbird 3.0b3 (20090525). You
are using beta software, features may disappear and reappear as patches are
tested and tweaked.

The link is a request to the server to refresh the list of message ID's.
Intentionally or by being mis-configured, some servers don't honor the request.

If we were supposed to infer some other meaning from your terse remark, please
elaborate.


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wanton

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Jun 13, 2009, 10:04:10 PM6/13/09
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I mean in this newsgroup.

Ken Whiton

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Jun 13, 2009, 11:04:06 PM6/13/09
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*-* On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, at 12:04:10 +1000,
*-* In Article MMWdnfNtcIQAx6nX...@mozilla.org,
*-* wanton wrote
*-* About Re: Click here to remove all expired articles

You can't test that function in the mozilla.* newsgroups.
Giganews, which hosts news.mozilla.org, currently has approximately
six years retention in text groups. News.mozilla.org has only been
hosted on Giganews for about 3 1/2 years, so there are no expired
articles to be removed.

Ken Whiton
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wanton

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Jun 13, 2009, 11:09:58 PM6/13/09
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Spam

G. R. Woodring

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Jun 13, 2009, 11:38:42 PM6/13/09
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The oldest message I see in this group is still the welcome message from when
the group was first created. (Welcome to mozilla.support.thunderbird, dated
1/10/2006)

The only articles to remove would be those canceled by the administrator. I
haven't seen any removed posts here today so obviously I have successfully
removed them at some point. I did find some spam posts in
mozilla.support.accessibility, They displayed the "remove expired articles" link
and, when clicked, they disappeared. What part of the function isn't working
for you?


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wanton

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Jun 14, 2009, 2:11:30 AM6/14/09
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The last part

G. R. Woodring

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Jun 14, 2009, 2:30:56 AM6/14/09
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Try running Thunderbird in -safe-mode and see if the problem goes away. Some
extensions and themes for Thunderbird beta aren't quite ready yet. They can't
be reliably tested when the beta code can change almost daily.

On that note, try a new nightly build. The version you are using is nearly 4
months old, a _lifetime_ in beta software.


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G. R. Woodring

wanton

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Jun 14, 2009, 3:28:15 AM6/14/09
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Hi,

I downloaded this because it's portable and the program is mature
enough, so I doubt I'd want to install anything as that is not my goal.

Thanks anyway

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