From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on 30 Jun 2010 20:13 1. Delete the thousands of (News) Blocked Senders I've had to add over the years to avoid loony-tunes like BoaterDave. 2. Pour a stiff one and toast my mentors Jim Pickering, Steve Cochran, Frank Saunders, Marfer, Majik & the incomparable Tom Koch. -- ~PA� "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
From: Steve Cochran on 30 Jun 2010 20:23 The other thing to remember is to backup the NG folders (or copy the NG messages to local folders), as when the NGs are killed, all the messages in that NG will be deleted in you local message store, irretrievably. steve "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:uT4NoKLGLHA.5700(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > 1. Delete the thousands of (News) Blocked Senders I've had to add over the > years to avoid loony-tunes like BoaterDave. > > 2. Pour a stiff one and toast my mentors Jim Pickering, Steve Cochran, Frank > Saunders, Marfer, Majik & the incomparable Tom Koch. > -- > ~PAÞ > "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." >
From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on 30 Jun 2010 21:35 That's always been an ongoing project. Steve Cochran wrote: > The other thing to remember is to backup the NG folders (or copy the NG > messages to local folders), as when the NGs are killed, all the messages > in > that NG will be deleted in you local message store, irretrievably. > > steve > > "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > news:uT4NoKLGLHA.5700(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> 1. Delete the thousands of (News) Blocked Senders I've had to add over >> the >> years to avoid loony-tunes like BoaterDave. >> >> 2. Pour a stiff one and toast my mentors Jim Pickering, Steve Cochran, >> Frank Saunders, Marfer, Majik & the incomparable Tom Koch. >> -- >> ~PA� >> "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
From: DAS on 1 Jul 2010 06:32 1. Don't some of the loony senders keep changing their addresses? Hence thousands? 2. Cheers! DAS To reply directly replace 'nospam' with 'schmetterling' -- "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:uT4NoKLGLHA.5700(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > 1. Delete the thousands of (News) Blocked Senders I've had to add over the > years to avoid loony-tunes like BoaterDave. > > 2. Pour a stiff one and toast my mentors Jim Pickering, Steve Cochran, > Frank Saunders, Marfer, Majik & the incomparable Tom Koch. > -- > ~PA� > "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
From: DAS on 1 Jul 2010 06:34
Didn't think of that. Thanks. I thought that a post once downloaded stays on my machine. At any rate I have copied some threads into a newly created local folder. DAS To reply directly replace 'nospam' with 'schmetterling' -- "Steve Cochran" <scochran(a)oehelp.com> wrote in message news:e52MdOLGLHA.1716(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... The other thing to remember is to backup the NG folders (or copy the NG messages to local folders), as when the NGs are killed, all the messages in that NG will be deleted in you local message store, irretrievably. steve "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:uT4NoKLGLHA.5700(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > 1. Delete the thousands of (News) Blocked Senders I've had to add over the > years to avoid loony-tunes like BoaterDave. > > 2. Pour a stiff one and toast my mentors Jim Pickering, Steve Cochran, > Frank > Saunders, Marfer, Majik & the incomparable Tom Koch. > -- > ~PA� > "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." > |