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


"Dave Ludlow" wrote in message
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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.


that was what I found interesting. My machine is set under OE to just
download 300 at a time, and it was surprising how many of the real posts
turned up in the 300

Jim Webster