From: Gerry on

Rich/rerat

Those were the days <G>.

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Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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Rich/rerat wrote:
> Neil,
> This featured was introduced in Outlook Express 5. It was considered
> a "bug" in the beta stage, by some, and an improvement by others,
> from OE4. So this "bug" or feature has been around close to a decade
> now.
>
> Since many ISP's are dropping newsgroup service, people have had to
> choose another service. Many of the "free" news companies, have a
> short retention period for storing messages on their servers. This
> means they can keep their costs down, and be able to offer the free
> service to the public. But it also means that this OE action will be
> more noticeable to users, if they did not see it before, because
> their former new service, had a longer message retention policy.
> People will need to have to subscribe to News companies that have a
> longer retention policy, which they will need to pay for themselves.
> Or create a new local folder or folders, and copy/move the message
> you want to keep to this (these) folder(s).
>
> As stated many times in this newsgroup, the OE development team has
> been disbanded, so their will be no new adjustments/fixes/upgrades to
> this application, except for the occasional security update.
>
> Here is a short list of newsgroup threads found in Google Newsgroups,
> about this subject.
>
> OE5 removes messages from local file! Thread Posted on 2/16/1999
>
> microsoft.public.inetexplorer.ie5beta.outlookexpress
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.inetexplorer.ie5beta.outlookexpress/browse_thread/thread/293b43659ef9421f?hl=en&q=oe4+removes+news+messages
>
> Another thread about this Posted:
>
> microsoft.public.inetexplorer.ie4.outlookexpress newsgroup 6/26/2000
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.inetexplorer.ie4.outlookexpress/browse_thread/thread/70cc5c79c3485c5f/b6e258565f148135?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=delete+news+messages#b6e258565f148135


From: D. Spencer Hines on
Who were the people on the Outlook Express Development Team?
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"Gerry" <gerry(a)nospam.com> wrote in message
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>> As stated many times in this newsgroup, the OE development team has
>> been disbanded, so their will be no new adjustments/fixes/upgrades to
>> this application, except for the occasional security update.


From: Ron Sommer on
When OE opens, it checks the count. If the count is 100, the compaction
message will appear when you close OE.
There is no automatic compaction, because the user has to ok the compaction.
The count changes on the opening of OE.
The compaction message will not appear until the 101st close of OE.
--
Ronald Sommer

"Gerry" <gerry(a)nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Neil
>
> On closing Outlook Express 100 times. On some systems something changes
> the counter in the Registry when it is not intended so automatic
> compacting can be triggered quite a bit earlier. The counter is meant to
> increment by one on closure but something else cause the counter to
> increment at other times. Bruce Hagen writes about this regularly. It
> doesn't happen here.
>
> --
>
>
>
> Gerry
> ~~~~
> FCA
> Stourport, England
> Enquire, plan and execute
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Neil wrote:
>> "Gerry" <gerry(a)nospam.com> wrote in message
>> news:OOOV3e4gJHA.2384(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>> Robert
>>>
>>>>> Also, what's the point of having a "Delete news messages X days
>>>>> after being downloaded" if OE is just going to delete them anyway,
>>>>> regardless of the setting. Again, doesn't make sense.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Makes perfect sense if someone only wants to keep a weeks worth
>>>> of posts in his cache instead of a much larger number that the
>>>> server might support.
>>>
>>> Your comment is correct . It was logical. It was also part of one of
>>> the most disastrous and problematic features of Outlook Express.
>>> Compacting. Checking this feature was blamed for countless losses of
>>> messages. Automatic compacting was abandoned by users in favour of
>>> manual compacting Offline. The changes made to automatic compacting
>>> not so long ago improved the situation but did not totally resolve
>>> the problem. Manual compacting before automatic compacting is
>>> triggered remains the safest option. The option to "Delete news
>>> messages X days after being downloaded" should have been removed
>>> when the other changes were made.
>>
>>
>> When does automatic compacting take place?
>
>
From: Gerry on
Actually Bear Rich/rerat has posted a Google thread from February 2000
containing a similar post by me on the same topic. MM is in another
thread from the OE5 beta group of 1999, which I did not read at the time
referring to the same topic. I remember that time well because of
disgreements over how the Move to Folder command worked.A certain Bear
was not on the Outlook Express stage at that time <big grin>.


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Regards.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

>PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
> [OMG, now Gerry's got MasterPosts! <eek>]
>
> Gerry wrote:
>> Neil
>>
>> An extract from one of my posts from February 2004.
>>
>> A factor in storing messages is the time news messages are held on
>> the news server...


From: Bruce Hagen on
Why do you add Crossposting to every reply you make? Totally unnecessary.
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"D. Spencer Hines" <panther(a)excelsior.com> wrote in message
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> Who were the people on the Outlook Express Development Team?
> --
> DSH
> Lux et Veritas et Libertas
> Vires et Honor
>
> "Gerry" <gerry(a)nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:eVL5OIBhJHA.4220(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>
>>> As stated many times in this newsgroup, the OE development team has
>>> been disbanded, so their will be no new adjustments/fixes/upgrades to
>>> this application, except for the occasional security update.
>
>

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