On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:44:38 -0000, "wafflycat"
wafflesATv21netDOTcoDOTuk wrote:


"Dave Ludlow" wrote in message
.. .

Doesn't help much when I have to download 40,000 bodies first, to get
to that point! That information doesn't appear in the initial headers
so you can't filter on it to stop the bodies coming in.


If you are using OE, you don't have to download the bodies. I don't. I
download headers only - see if it's something I want to read - if it is, I
read it, if not, I delete it - without prior downloading.

Well yes, that's what I did yesterday... but flicking through a block
of 10,000 headers say 20 at a time to see if there are any genuine
posts in there, would have been rather time consuming! I could have
deleted the lot but some genuine posts would have been lost with them.

I couldn't search for the Posting Host (to kill or delete only "his"
messages) at that point because Posting Host doesn't appear in the
initial header information, only after the bodies have been retrieved.
Are you saying that OE can retrieve "Posting Host" details before you
get the bodies?

It's a pity I have to waste all that bandwidth but it doesn't cost me
any money, and not much time, as I go away and do other things while
the bodies are downloading.

--
Dave