Downloaded MesNews Ready to Go!

Hi
I've managed to download MesNews without a problem, so far. This is my
first post & hope it gets out there to you all. It took forever for all
the newsgroups to load, like thousands! I'm either ready for a drink or
bed after this. lol Tomorrow is another day with a clear head to learn
the ins & outs how this program works. I don't ever recall having to
wait so long for all these newsgroups to load so I hope I did
everything okay. If this has any spelling errors please excuse that'll
be the next step to get done. So far what I'm seeing..I like!
Again thank you for all your help, I couldn't have done any of this
without your support.
Take care.......
Diane

Diane LeMasson wrote:
Hi
I've managed to download MesNews without a problem, so far. This is my
first post & hope it gets out there to you all. It took forever for all
the newsgroups to load, like thousands! I'm either ready for a drink or
bed after this. lol Tomorrow is another day with a clear head to learn
the ins & outs how this program works. I don't ever recall having to
wait so long for all these newsgroups to load so I hope I did everything
okay. If this has any spelling errors please excuse that'll be the next
step to get done. So far what I'm seeing..I like!
Again thank you for all your help, I couldn't have done any of this
without your support.
Take care.......
Diane

You can set your X-ICQ header value to something other than the default.
I don't know if zero turns it off entirely or not.

Other than that, the first setup step was easy for me.
Understanding their subscription and header updates features,
left me scratching my head. So the most difficult part is
ahead of you. I found the tool a bit wasteful of bandwidth,
if left to its own devices.

Paul

Paul formulated the question :
Diane LeMasson wrote:
Hi
I've managed to download MesNews without a problem, so far. This is my
first post & hope it gets out there to you all. It took forever for all the
newsgroups to load, like thousands! I'm either ready for a drink or bed
after this. lol Tomorrow is another day with a clear head to learn the ins
& outs how this program works. I don't ever recall having to wait so long
for all these newsgroups to load so I hope I did everything okay. If this
has any spelling errors please excuse that'll be the next step to get done.
So far what I'm seeing..I like!
Again thank you for all your help, I couldn't have done any of this without
your support.
Take care.......
Diane

You can set your X-ICQ header value to something other than the default.
I don't know if zero turns it off entirely or not.

Other than that, the first setup step was easy for me.
Understanding their subscription and header updates features,
left me scratching my head. So the most difficult part is
ahead of you. I found the tool a bit wasteful of bandwidth,
if left to its own devices.

Paul

Paul

I'm not understanding what this X-ICQ header value is & what it does so
you'll have to explain it to me. If you don't mind.
Thanks!

Diane

On 2/1/2014 12:51 PM, Diane LeMasson wrote:
Paul formulated the question :
Diane LeMasson wrote:
Hi
I've managed to download MesNews without a problem, so far. This is
my first post & hope it gets out there to you all. It took forever
for all the newsgroups to load, like thousands! I'm either ready for
a drink or bed after this. lol Tomorrow is another day with a clear
head to learn the ins & outs how this program works. I don't ever
recall having to wait so long for all these newsgroups to load so I
hope I did everything okay. If this has any spelling errors please
excuse that'll be the next step to get done. So far what I'm
seeing..I like!
Again thank you for all your help, I couldn't have done any of this
without your support.
Take care.......
Diane

You can set your X-ICQ header value to something other than the default.
I don't know if zero turns it off entirely or not.

Other than that, the first setup step was easy for me.
Understanding their subscription and header updates features,
left me scratching my head. So the most difficult part is
ahead of you. I found the tool a bit wasteful of bandwidth,
if left to its own devices.

Paul

Paul

I'm not understanding what this X-ICQ header value is & what it does so
you'll have to explain it to me. If you don't mind.
Thanks!

Diane

I believe Paul is referring to your posts to newsgroup creates a header
of information attached to your messages. Depending on your reader, you
can view all of the header information. And yours has an added entry
called X-ICQ and displays a number after it. I am not sure, but it could
be your ICQ number. I don't know how MesNews knows what your number is,
but I believe this is what Paul is referring too.

--
Bill
Motion Computing LE1700 Tablet ('09 era) - Thunderbird v12
Centrino Core2 Duo L7400 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM - Windows 8 Pro

On 2/1/2014 1:24 PM, BillW50 wrote:
On 2/1/2014 12:51 PM, Diane LeMasson wrote:
Paul formulated the question :
Diane LeMasson wrote:
Hi
I've managed to download MesNews without a problem, so far. This is
my first post & hope it gets out there to you all. It took forever
for all the newsgroups to load, like thousands! I'm either ready for
a drink or bed after this. lol Tomorrow is another day with a clear
head to learn the ins & outs how this program works. I don't ever
recall having to wait so long for all these newsgroups to load so I
hope I did everything okay. If this has any spelling errors please
excuse that'll be the next step to get done. So far what I'm
seeing..I like!
Again thank you for all your help, I couldn't have done any of this
without your support.
Take care.......
Diane

You can set your X-ICQ header value to something other than the default.
I don't know if zero turns it off entirely or not.

Other than that, the first setup step was easy for me.
Understanding their subscription and header updates features,
left me scratching my head. So the most difficult part is
ahead of you. I found the tool a bit wasteful of bandwidth,
if left to its own devices.

Paul

Paul

I'm not understanding what this X-ICQ header value is & what it does so
you'll have to explain it to me. If you don't mind.
Thanks!

Diane

I believe Paul is referring to your posts to newsgroup creates a header
of information attached to your messages. Depending on your reader, you
can view all of the header information. And yours has an added entry
called X-ICQ and displays a number after it. I am not sure, but it could
be your ICQ number. I don't know how MesNews knows what your number is,
but I believe this is what Paul is referring too.

Okay here is how it knows.

http://www.mesnews.net/gb/aide_parametrage.php

--
Bill
Dell Latitude Slate Tablet 128GB SSD ('12 era) - Thunderbird v12
Intel Atom Z670 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM - Windows 8 Pro

On 2/01/2014, BillW50 posted:
On 2/1/2014 1:24 PM, BillW50 wrote:
On 2/1/2014 12:51 PM, Diane LeMasson wrote:
Paul formulated the question :
Diane LeMasson wrote:
Hi
I've managed to download MesNews without a problem, so far. This
is
my first post & hope it gets out there to you all. It took
forever
for all the newsgroups to load, like thousands! I'm either ready
for
a drink or bed after this. lol Tomorrow is another day with a
clear
head to learn the ins & outs how this program works. I don't
ever
recall having to wait so long for all these newsgroups to load
so I
hope I did everything okay. If this has any spelling errors
please
excuse that'll be the next step to get done. So far what I'm
seeing..I like!
Again thank you for all your help, I couldn't have done any of
this
without your support.
Take care.......
Diane

You can set your X-ICQ header value to something other than the
default.
I don't know if zero turns it off entirely or not.

Other than that, the first setup step was easy for me.
Understanding their subscription and header updates features,
left me scratching my head. So the most difficult part is
ahead of you. I found the tool a bit wasteful of bandwidth,
if left to its own devices.

Paul

Paul

I'm not understanding what this X-ICQ header value is & what it
does so
you'll have to explain it to me. If you don't mind.
Thanks!

Diane

I believe Paul is referring to your posts to newsgroup creates a
header
of information attached to your messages. Depending on your reader,
you
can view all of the header information. And yours has an added
entry
called X-ICQ and displays a number after it. I am not sure, but it
could
be your ICQ number. I don't know how MesNews knows what your number
is,
but I believe this is what Paul is referring too.

Okay here is how it knows.

http://www.mesnews.net/gb/aide_parametrage.php

Except that page shows File/Parameters with five tabs and I have
File/Settings with 7 tabs. Be warned.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On 2/01/2014, BillW50 posted:
On 2/1/2014 1:24 PM, BillW50 wrote:
On 2/1/2014 12:51 PM, Diane LeMasson wrote:
Paul formulated the question :
Diane LeMasson wrote:
Hi
I've managed to download MesNews without a problem, so far. This is
my first post & hope it gets out there to you all. It took forever
for all the newsgroups to load, like thousands! I'm either ready for
a drink or bed after this. lol Tomorrow is another day with a clear
head to learn the ins & outs how this program works. I don't ever
recall having to wait so long for all these newsgroups to load so I
hope I did everything okay. If this has any spelling errors please
excuse that'll be the next step to get done. So far what I'm
seeing..I like!
Again thank you for all your help, I couldn't have done any of this
without your support.
Take care.......
Diane

You can set your X-ICQ header value to something other than the
default.
I don't know if zero turns it off entirely or not.

Other than that, the first setup step was easy for me.
Understanding their subscription and header updates features,
left me scratching my head. So the most difficult part is
ahead of you. I found the tool a bit wasteful of bandwidth,
if left to its own devices.

Paul

Paul

I'm not understanding what this X-ICQ header value is & what it does so
you'll have to explain it to me. If you don't mind.
Thanks!

Diane

I believe Paul is referring to your posts to newsgroup creates a header
of information attached to your messages. Depending on your reader, you
can view all of the header information. And yours has an added entry
called X-ICQ and displays a number after it. I am not sure, but it could
be your ICQ number. I don't know how MesNews knows what your number is,
but I believe this is what Paul is referring too.

Okay here is how it knows.

http://www.mesnews.net/gb/aide_parametrage.php

Except that page shows File/Parameters with five tabs and I have
File/Settings with 7 tabs. Be warned.


ICQ is for chatting. The number is your "address", when someone
wants to "phone" you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icq

You don't want to advertise someone else's ICQ number,
so that should be set to something more obvious or
turned off if you can figure out how.

Since that particular default value is probably posted
by lots of mesnews users, it likely isn't used for
anything important. Still, it's the principle of the
thing. Try to adjust header content, for the kind of
information you want to share with people.

The header of the message in this case, can be seen here.
I enter the message ID (MID) here http://al.howardknight.net/
and then I can look at the message without any decorations
by a newsreader program.

http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi...%40fx26.iad%3E

Path: snipped
Subject: Downloaded MesNews Ready to Go!
From: Diane LeMasson
Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-8
X-Newsreader: MesNews/1.08.05.00-gb
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-ICQ: 1701145376 -------- default ICQ number ??? change it ???
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15"; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Lines: 13
Message-ID:
X-Complaints-To:
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 05:07:46 UTC
Organization: Optimum Online
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 00:07:45 -0500
X-Received-Bytes: 1281
X-Received-Body-CRC: 2256919414

Paul

On 2/01/2014, Paul posted:
Except that page shows File/Parameters with five tabs and I have
File/Settings with 7 tabs. Be warned.


ICQ is for chatting. The number is your "address", when someone
wants to "phone" you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icq

You don't want to advertise someone else's ICQ number,
so that should be set to something more obvious or
turned off if you can figure out how.

I am trying to figure out whose post you answered.

I was just pointing out that the help file BillW50 referred to had
errors, probably due to its not being updated when the MesNews program
was changed.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On 2/01/2014, Paul posted:
Except that page shows File/Parameters with five tabs and I have
File/Settings with 7 tabs. Be warned.


ICQ is for chatting. The number is your "address", when someone
wants to "phone" you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icq

You don't want to advertise someone else's ICQ number,
so that should be set to something more obvious or
turned off if you can figure out how.

I am trying to figure out whose post you answered.

I was just pointing out that the help file BillW50 referred to had
errors, probably due to its not being updated when the MesNews program
was changed.


That's funny, I'm trying to figure it out too :-) Hmmm.

I could have sworn I replied to the first one.

I was probably reading the other answers and thought I was
still responding to the one further up. Perils of
multitasking.

Paul

On 2/01/2014, Paul posted:
Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On 2/01/2014, Paul posted:
Except that page shows File/Parameters with five tabs and I have
File/Settings with 7 tabs. Be warned.


ICQ is for chatting. The number is your "address", when someone
wants to "phone" you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icq

You don't want to advertise someone else's ICQ number,
so that should be set to something more obvious or
turned off if you can figure out how.

I am trying to figure out whose post you answered.

I was just pointing out that the help file BillW50 referred to had
errors, probably due to its not being updated when the MesNews
program was changed.


That's funny, I'm trying to figure it out too :-) Hmmm.

I could have sworn I replied to the first one.

I was probably reading the other answers and thought I was
still responding to the one further up. Perils of
multitasking.

Paul

Well, what the heck, a good mystery is always fun! And your reply has
me still laughing *with* you :-)

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)