Tuesday, July 13, 2021

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gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack): Jul 13 04:37AM

In article <sc2cng$14hm$1@gioia.aioe.org>,
>configure how this handled instead of everything saved to Sent folder
>but it is a different topic for Thunderbird or for any newsclient you
>are using.
 
Yeah, but...
 
That works reasonably well, provided you are talking about the world, post,
say, about 2010, and that you are, in fact, using a Windows GUI newsclient
thingie, like, say, Thunderbird.
 
But, remember, the poster in question says he's been doing this since the
early 90s, and, also, at least some of us are still using basically the
same technology today to read and post to Usenet as we (and everyone else)
did in the early 90s.
 
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Real Troll <real.troll@trolls.com>: Jul 13 04:45PM

On 13/07/2021 05:37, Kenny McCormack wrote:
> early 90s, and, also, at least some of us are still using basically the
> same technology today to read and post to Usenet as we (and everyone else)
> did in the early 90s.
 
Surely, all news client must have a facility to save messages somewhere
when the user sends something. Even in the 90s when Netscape and Outlook
Express were two GUI news clients had a facility to save messages in
sent folder.
 
Now in the 21st century, there is even a better way to save all your
sent messages. The method I use is to initially save the messages in the
local folders and on a weekly basis, I drag the messages from sent
folder to my Yahoo account. Yahoo gives you 1TB of disk space free of
charge so make use of it. If they decide to close their free service
then they will give you at least 30 days notice so you'll need to find
other means of saving your messages.
 
However, if you are talking of very old messages and your copies are
lost then there is no way to get them back. In any case what is the
point of reading what happened in 1990. The technology have changed
quite a lot.
 
I am currently using Mozilla Thunderbird so it has better features and
easy to master. there is a newsgroup for Thunderbird here:
<news://news.aioe.org/alt.comp.software.thunderbird>. Or you could
search for: "alt.comp.software.thunderbird" in your news client. Your
service provider must have this newsgroup.
 
You can't rely on Google Groups because they are likely to be shut down
because Google is making a loss on them. There are no ads on that news
portal so why should they continue running it. Google is a business so
bottom line comes before anything else.
scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal): Jul 13 05:44PM

>> did in the early 90s.
 
>Surely, all news client must have a facility to save messages somewhere
>when the user sends something.
 
Nope. See headers. Mine will save cancelled posts to ~/dead.letter
however.
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