From: taomlin@earthlink.net 
  
 In news:c1ev50$1h1qq7$7@ID-111037.news.uni-berlin.de, 
 GameNewb  informed us: 
 | x-no-archive: yes 
 | Sam of California wrote: news:U3r_b.5938$qc4.566@twister.socal.rr.com 
 | 
 || 52-Post Catch-up wrote 
 || 
 ||| Menu: View -> Layout 
 ||| Select the check boxes "Show preview pane" and "Show preview pane 
 ||| header". 
 ||| 
 ||| The newsgroups will now be visible at the top of the preview pane. 
 || 
 || I think I see the headers that way but I still miss seeing multiple 
 || newsgroups. What I meant to say is that eventhough the newsgroups 
 || are there to see I don't see them. That is why I said something 
 || about making them flash; so I would be more likely to know that 
 || there are multiple newsgroups. So in other words I was (not 
 || entirely) serious. 
 | 
 | No newsreaders I know of have this feature. I'm afraid you'll have to 
 | get used to noticing the newsgroups header. 
 | 
 || I don't use the preview pane, though. I turned it off to reduce the 
 || chance that spammers would benefit. I don't miss it. However a 
 || better way to reduce spam is to set the option to always use plain 
 || text for viewing email. Many spammers have a way to get notified 
 || that we have previewed and/or opened their email. That makes our 
 || email addesses worth more since they have verified it is good. I 
 || seem to finaly see a reduction in spam I am getting, but it seemed 
 || to have taken about two months after I turned off HTML viewing. 
 | 
 | Windows XP SP2, due May 2004, will introduce to Outlook Express the 
 | option to stop images being automatically downloaded when viewing 
 | HTML messages. 
  
 I must be one of the 27 people on the east coast who doesn't mind using 
 OE. I have the options set to display all messages in "text only" so 
 some of the aggravating HTML code won't display or activate in the 
 Preview Pane. 
  
 Tools - Options - Read - Read All in Plain Text. 
  
 Also, I have my options set to notify me when a "Read" receipt is 
 requested. 
  
 In fact, I read NG's and email this way. If something looks interesting 
 enough, then I'll open it in it's own window. 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
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