Search options and D/L headers from certain NG's

[eclapwannabe]

Trying to understand the global search option. It searches across all the groups I monitor.
It can only search what I have download to my hard drive. Yet........... I have not a successful
search on my local drive. Never. My main interest is to search for particular posters. Posters
are found in the "from" field. Do I have to give the whole address etc.abc@1234.com? Can I just
search for their nic name? I will choose the from field and type in the the nic and address and
it shows activity on the bottom but then it stops and I see NOTHING. NADA. So frustrating.

Can I increase the Download Age and/or Display age for only certain newsgroups I monitor? The larger
newsgroups can have up to a 1Bil. headers. I don't want the bloat on my hard drive. But a lot of the
groups I monitor have no more than 500k headers. I want to go back a few years on these select groups
and not the mp3 or some of the multimedia groups. I have found out for the older post if is a single
part post it d/l okay. It is when it is an older post and multi-part post the server has lost them.

ec

[Quade]

1 - "Search" set to "internet" doesn't search your downloaded headers. Instead it checks a server on the internet, like google and pulls down results that way. Essentially if you use search, you don't have to download headers ever.

2 - "Search" set to "local" will search your local header downloads.

3 - You can tell search to only look in certain groups. Both kinds of search. If you have your groups split into topics, you just have to pick the topic before you search. It's labeled "Search in Groups" in the current beta.

4 - How you format posters depends on whether you use internet or local mode. For local, you only need part of the "from" field.

Now what I've done is I use headers, I generated a "watch topic" and set them to watch for certain posters. When I download headers, all the files for the posters I watch for go into a "watch list" I can load like a group. This is in the current beta too. Then I never have to load the actual group and wade through headers. The posts from the posters I like all end up on my watch lists.

There's currently no way to control storage age "per group". I can think about it though.