Ping Joe and Others about the incomplete parts.txt
Hi all,
I have seen a couple of messages that cannot come from experience Usenet users.
So, here is a "How to Refresh your Headers in xNews" tutorial.
This, of course, suppose that you have, like our friend Joe, a subscription with a decent Usenet service Provider like Astraweb and also that you have a decent Newsreader that you know how to use. In my case, it is xNews a free newsreader.
Step 01 - As you can see in the video, there is only Joe's header in the group (I voluntarily discarded all other headers)
Step 02 - Pressing the left Ctrl AND F5 key on your keyboard at the same time will bring that nice little window that you see in the tutorial
Step 03 - Using my mouse (sorry you don't see it in the tutorial) I am dragging the upper cursor to the left. You can see the number of headers to be loaded increase correspondingly.
Step 04 - Press Enter
Step 05 - The headers are loading (you can see the speed and numbers increasing)
Step 06 - By pressing the title of the column Date, it tells xNews to sort the headers by Date... In the case of alt.bin.jimmy and Astraweb, they go back to april 16.
Step 07 - Using the mouse, I go up and down in date until I started finding the posts you are looking for.
Step 08 - Using the mouse, I sorted the column "From" to see the posts made by Requested
Step 09 - Oh my god! They are all complete! No need to ask for a repost...
The rest belong to you.
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