You can select the NG, and use find to select some items, and drag and drop
them to the Deleted folder (works for me with OE)

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HTH

RP

"R.VENKATARAMAN" &&& wrote in message
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this is a general question. After browsing through the downloaded
newsgroup
messages I go to tools-option-maintenance-clear-browse (choose the
newsserver)-ok-delete-compact. about nine operations. is there any way of
simplifying this. thanks