Downloading Newsgroups

For some time, I have downloaded messages from both the secnews and 
news.mozilla.org servers, because I'm on dial-up and figured if I D/l 
all the messages, I could then read at my leisure and have my phone line 
free, in case someone was trying to contact my by 'phone.

Occasionally I forget to select one of the news servers before trying to 
D/L, but when I do this, the "Offline" selection is greyed out,
letting 
me know I've stuffed up again.

When I get it right, it has always intrigued me that, when I want to D/L 
the news groups, I can select to d/l my mail at the same time. Why, 
then, can I not D/L my news groups whilst D/L'ing e-mail, but HAVE to 
select a news server to get both?

Anybody got any ideas??

Daniel wrote:

> For some time, I have downloaded messages from both the secnews and
> news.mozilla.org servers, because I'm on dial-up and figured if I D/l
> all the messages, I could then read at my leisure and have my phone line
> free, in case someone was trying to contact my by 'phone.
>
> Occasionally I forget to select one of the news servers before trying to
> D/L, but when I do this, the "Offline" selection is greyed out,
letting
> me know I've stuffed up again.
>
> When I get it right, it has always intrigued me that, when I want to D/L
> the news groups, I can select to d/l my mail at the same time. Why,
> then, can I not D/L my news groups whilst D/L'ing e-mail, but HAVE to
> select a news server to get both?
>
> Anybody got any ideas??
>
> Daniel

You have only one primary email address right?
You have multiple new servers (at least two).  The program needs you to make
a choice:-))

Lou
I eat my peas with honey.
I've done it all my life.
It makes the peas taste funny.
But it keeps them on my knife.

Lou@its.invalid wrote:
> Daniel wrote:
> 
>> For some time, I have downloaded messages from both the secnews and
>> news.mozilla.org servers, because I'm on dial-up and figured if I D/l
>> all the messages, I could then read at my leisure and have my phone
line
>> free, in case someone was trying to contact my by 'phone.
>>
>> Occasionally I forget to select one of the news servers before trying
to
>> D/L, but when I do this, the "Offline" selection is greyed
out, letting
>> me know I've stuffed up again.
>>
>> When I get it right, it has always intrigued me that, when I want to
D/L
>> the news groups, I can select to d/l my mail at the same time. Why,
>> then, can I not D/L my news groups whilst D/L'ing e-mail, but HAVE to
>> select a news server to get both?
>>
>> Anybody got any ideas??
>>
>> Daniel
> 
> You have only one primary email address right?
> You have multiple new servers (at least two).  The program needs you to
make
> a choice:-))
> 
> Lou
> I eat my peas with honey.
> I've done it all my life.
> It makes the peas taste funny.
> But it keeps them on my knife.
> 
> 
> 

Sorry, Lou. I subscribe to four news servers, and usually d/l from two. 
So what's this got to do with not being able to D/L my News groups when 
I have my mail account selected when I can D/L my mail if I have any of 
the four News servers selected?

Daniel wrote:

> Lou@its.invalid wrote:
> > Daniel wrote:
> >
> >> For some time, I have downloaded messages from both the secnews
and
> >> news.mozilla.org servers, because I'm on dial-up and figured if I
D/l
> >> all the messages, I could then read at my leisure and have my
phone line
> >> free, in case someone was trying to contact my by 'phone.
> >>
> >> Occasionally I forget to select one of the news servers before
trying to
> >> D/L, but when I do this, the "Offline" selection is
greyed out, letting
> >> me know I've stuffed up again.
> >>
> >> When I get it right, it has always intrigued me that, when I want
to D/L
> >> the news groups, I can select to d/l my mail at the same time.
Why,
> >> then, can I not D/L my news groups whilst D/L'ing e-mail, but HAVE
to
> >> select a news server to get both?
> >>
> >> Anybody got any ideas??
> >>
> >> Daniel
> >
> > You have only one primary email address right?
> > You have multiple new servers (at least two).  The program needs you
to make
> > a choice:-))
> >
> > Lou
> > I eat my peas with honey.
> > I've done it all my life.
> > It makes the peas taste funny.
> > But it keeps them on my knife.
> >
> >
> >
>
> Sorry, Lou. I subscribe to four news servers, and usually d/l from two.
> So what's this got to do with not being able to D/L my News groups when
> I have my mail account selected when I can D/L my mail if I have any of
> the four News servers selected?
>
> Daniel

"Occasionally I forget to select one of the news servers before trying to
D/L, but
when I do this, the "Offline" selection is greyed out, letting me know
I've
stuffed up again."

The program MUST be told WHICH news server to D/L.  It does NOT know which one
and
it can only d/l one at a time.

Lou

Daniel wrote:
> Lou@its.invalid wrote:
>> Daniel wrote:
>>
>>> Lou@its.invalid wrote:
>>>> Daniel wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> For some time, I have downloaded messages from both the
secnews and
>>>>> news.mozilla.org servers, because I'm on dial-up and
figured if I D/l
>>>>> all the messages, I could then read at my leisure and have
my phone 
>>>>> line
>>>>> free, in case someone was trying to contact my by 'phone.
>>>>>
>>>>> Occasionally I forget to select one of the news servers
before 
>>>>> trying to
>>>>> D/L, but when I do this, the "Offline" selection
is greyed out, 
>>>>> letting
>>>>> me know I've stuffed up again.
>>>>>
>>>>> When I get it right, it has always intrigued me that, when
I want 
>>>>> to D/L
>>>>> the news groups, I can select to d/l my mail at the same
time. Why,
>>>>> then, can I not D/L my news groups whilst D/L'ing e-mail,
but HAVE to
>>>>> select a news server to get both?
>>>>>
>>>>> Anybody got any ideas??
>>>>>
>>>>> Daniel
>>>> You have only one primary email address right?
>>>> You have multiple new servers (at least two).  The program
needs you 
>>>> to make
>>>> a choice:-))
>>>>
>>>> Lou
>>>> I eat my peas with honey.
>>>> I've done it all my life.
>>>> It makes the peas taste funny.
>>>> But it keeps them on my knife.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Sorry, Lou. I subscribe to four news servers, and usually d/l from
two.
>>> So what's this got to do with not being able to D/L my News groups
when
>>> I have my mail account selected when I can D/L my mail if I have
any of
>>> the four News servers selected?
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>
>> "Occasionally I forget to select one of the news servers before
trying 
>> to D/L, but
>> when I do this, the "Offline" selection is greyed out,
letting me know 
>> I've
>> stuffed up again."
>>
>> The program MUST be told WHICH news server to D/L.  It does NOT know 
>> which one and
>> it can only d/l one at a time.
>>
>> Lou
>>
>>
> 
> Thanks, Lou, yes I know this, but, as I say, if I can also D/L my mail 
> whilst d/l'ing the newsgroups, Why isn't the program set up so that 
> whilst I'm d/l'ing my mail, I can also d/l my newsgroups??
> 
> Daniel

You can. You can either download newsgroups manually (like downloading 
mail manually using Get Mail) or you can have the program do it for you 
on an automatic basis (like you have with mail). That way you can be 
reading your mail and getting your newsgroups at the same time.

Caveat:  I recommend mail check times of 5 minutes or more, and news