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Downloading Messages
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In general, when you first subscribe to a newsgroup, select 'Get Last 'n' Messages'. After that, select 'Get All New Messages'.
| · | Get Messages using the Get Messages Form
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| · | Using Quick Get Messages to get messages for all groups
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| · | Set up Batches to get messages from groups you require.
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| · | Get Messages automatically when you select a group.
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| 1. | The Get Messages Form
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| The primary way to get messages in XanaNews is to select 'Get Messages' from the Newsgroup menu, or press the 'Get Messages' button on the toolbar. Either way, the 'Get Messages Form' is displayed.
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| Notice at the bottom of the form there's a Get Headers Only button. If this is checked, XanaNews will just download message headers. You can download the message bodies later, by double-clicking on the message in the message tree. If this is not checked, XanaNews will download full messages.
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| · | Get All New Messages
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| Get All New Messages gets all new messages from the newsgroup. Any messages you've already downloaded will be kept.
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| This is probably the most usual way of getting messages.
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| · | Get All Messages
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| First delete any old messages you've downloaded, then download all messages from the newsgroup.
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| This is useful if you want to 'start again' with a group. Maybe you haven't visited it for months, so all the message you've already downloaded are out of date.
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| · | Get Only New Messages
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| First delete any old messages you've downloaded, then download only new messages.
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| This can be particularly effective when downloading from newsgroups containing pictures. Last time you visited the group you looked through the pictures and saved any that you wanted to keep. Now you want to just get the new ones.
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| · | Get Next 'n' Messages
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| Keep the messages you've already downloaded, and download the next 'n' messages too.
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| This handy if you want to download a full group's worth of messages a chunk at a time.
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| · | Get Last 'n' Messages
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| First delete any old messages, then download the most recent 'n' messages from the newsgroup.
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| People often use this when they first subscribe to a newsgroup, to prime it with some messages. Subsequently when reading the group they Get All New Messages
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| · | Add Messages from 'n1' to 'n2'
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| Get messages in the given message number range. Existing messages are kept.
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| Suppose you do 'Get Last 300 messages'. You read them, and think you'd like to add the previous 300 messages too.
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| · | Get messages since a date
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| First delete any existing messages, then download messages since the given date. This is another useful way of priming a newsgroup.
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| 2. | Quick Get Messages.
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| Use Quick Get Messages to get messages from all the groups you subscribe to, in all accounts. It uses the default Get Message action for each group, so you can control whether it downloads full messages, headers only, etc.
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| 3 | Get Batches of Messages
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| Set up Batches to get messages for each group in exactly the way you want. Most experienced XanaNews users eventually setup batches and use them as their primary method for getting messages.
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| See the separate section on Batches for more details
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| 4 | Download messages automatically when you select a group
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| You can configure XanaNews to automatically download messages - either each time you select a group, or just the first time per session you select a group. When it downloads the messages, XanaNews uses the default Get Message action for each group, so you can control whether it downloads full messages, headers only, etc.
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