On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 06:57:04 -0700, J. P. Gilliver (John)
wrote:

In message , 98 Guy writes:
RobertMacy, while unnecessarily full-quoting, wrote:
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Opera 'checks' Usenet gorups every 5 minutes, that would be
16.7 hours, don't think on line for that long.

You should not be treating usenet the same way you treat e-mail.

Email requires constant checking to see if you have mail, and mail
servers are set up for this.

I have NEVER EVER heard of anyone having a usenet client check for new
posts on a timed schedule the same way an email client checks for new
mail. That is absolutely crazy.

So how do _you_ get usenet posts?

After around 5 minutes of starting Opera, a small note at the bottom of
the screen says something like 237 emails have arrived from
eternal-september, or AIOE. Then at anytime, I can select MAIL along top
bar and all the postings appear as Names with Subject Dates, etc Lines
with the list in blue font. If I select any 'email' it's marked as 'read'
and changes to a black font entry with the posting appearing on bottom
half of screen. Most of these postings I completely ignore and simply
delete by either sitting on each entry and hitting delete, or highlighting
from top to bottom [much faster] with the shift key select and THEN hit
delete, they all disappear. I can also select thread and postings are
shown, not chronologically, but as an indented thread set showing name
subject date etc. Asking for THREAD view brings back the 'deleted'
postings for continuity. All in all pretty intuitive and easy to go
through. After that, any new postings, [if Opera is running] I receive a
small note, bottom of screen so if it is one of the threads I'm interested
in, I simply go read 'mail', or continue on with what I'm doing and ignore.

I do NOT use Opera for regular email. I use our ISP's specially provided
email program for regular emails. Since I have selected that ONLY text
come through, using their service there's NO way to get attacked with
malware. It's their problem. and they have storage and organization and
etc...

Again, I've told you about clients such as Netscape Communicator, but
you are so dense that you apparently don't try software that works AND
WORKS WELL WITHOUT GIVING YOU THESE ODDBALL PROBLEMS.

Stop using Opera for reading usenet and use a proper client. Or
continue to suffer because of your stubbornness.

(I think I'll count down from 10.)

98 Guy, don't mistake stubbornness for denseness. I've had such bad
experiences with Netscape, 'forgot its name', Internet Explorer and the
other MS product, and now had BIG problem with Google Chrome had to delete
from the WinXP [spit, spit, curse begone!]; I don't care to use them.


What I meant by e-s has list and Aoie has list is that I started with e-s
and subscribed to almost all of the groups I wanted, then when couldn't
post and added Aioe with the additional single group; all went well so
simply stopped changing things. Works, who cares now, right? So what if
e-s provides a large chunk and Aoie provides equally large chunk in a
single group; since I can reply to either by selecting Aioe. like I'm
doing now.


So, there you have the picture, perhaps going down a myriad of postings
one by one 'appeared' to Aioe as 200 'visits' or whatever they call it, so
they turned things off for that one day.