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Re: Refresh all newsgroups

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From Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
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Subject Re: Refresh all newsgroups
Date Mon, 5 Oct 2026 10:09:02 +0100
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Jeff Layman wrote:

> I often find that, after a month or two, I've got hundreds of old 
> messages in threads that I've no further interest in, spread across a 
> dozen newsgroups. At present the only way of removing these is 
> Properties | Repair Folder | Download headers. This, however, can only 
> be done one newsgroup at a time.

Tools >
Account settings >
[particular server] >
Synchronisation & storage >
Retention policy

then either set it to delete messages more than nnn days old, or delete 
all but the most recent nnn messages

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Refresh all newsgroups Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2026-10-05 09:48 +0100
  Re: Refresh all newsgroups Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-10-05 10:09 +0100
    Re: Refresh all newsgroups Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2026-10-05 14:32 +0100
      Re: Refresh all newsgroups Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-10-05 15:18 +0100
        Re: Refresh all newsgroups Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2026-10-05 17:01 +0100
      Re: Refresh all newsgroups "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-10-05 16:54 +0100
  Re: Refresh all newsgroups Arkadiusz 'Black Fox' Artyszuk <asdfadsasdfa@atomicmail.io> - 2026-10-05 11:19 +0200

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