Just removing the incorrectly dated posting under this one from the top of
the list in (at least) Outlook Express and Windows Mail.

Rick

Hi Rick, I saw your previous posting but did not see the date you referred
to. The only dates I saw were yesterday's date of 1/4/2008.

"Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB)" wrote:

Just removing the incorrectly dated posting under this one from the top of
the list in (at least) Outlook Express and Windows Mail.

Rick

In Outlook Express (OE) and Windows Mail (WM), the renamed version of OE in
Vista, email messages that are future-dated will hang around at the top (or
bottom depending on sort order) of the message list until that date is
reached (or until a more future-dated message is posted). One can remove
such a future-dated message in OE or WM, by posting a new message with the
identical subject line (not a reply to the message with the removed as I
first did) to the newsgroup. Both OE and WM (I don't know what other
newsreaders do) will make the future-dated message (and any replies to it) a
sub-thread of this newly posted message and thus removing the future-dated
message from the top (or bottom) of the message list. So, that is what I did
and, in my newsreader, the entire original thread with the same subject line
as this message has is now no longer at the top of my message list.

Rick


"JLGWhiz" wrote in message
...
Hi Rick, I saw your previous posting but did not see the date you referred
to. The only dates I saw were yesterday's date of 1/4/2008.

"Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB)" wrote:

Just removing the incorrectly dated posting under this one from the top
of
the list in (at least) Outlook Express and Windows Mail.

Rick

Or what I did...
Delete it from Outlook Express using Edit | Delete
--
Jim Cone
San Francisco, USA
http://www.realezsites.com/bus/primitivesoftware
(Excel Add-ins / Excel Programming)


"Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB)"
wrote in message

In Outlook Express (OE) and Windows Mail (WM), the renamed version of OE in
Vista, email messages that are future-dated will hang around at the top (or
bottom depending on sort order) of the message list until that date is
reached (or until a more future-dated message is posted). One can remove
such a future-dated message in OE or WM, by posting a new message with the
identical subject line (not a reply to the message with the removed as I
first did) to the newsgroup. Both OE and WM (I don't know what other
newsreaders do) will make the future-dated message (and any replies to it) a
sub-thread of this newly posted message and thus removing the future-dated
message from the top (or bottom) of the message list. So, that is what I did
and, in my newsreader, the entire original thread with the same subject line
as this message has is now no longer at the top of my message list.
Rick

LOL ... Yeah, I guess that would have worked too. Let's just say, then, I
was trying to be nice to everyone else.<g

By the way, pressing the Delete key does the same thing as Ctrl+D or
Edit/Delete.

Rick


"Jim Cone" wrote in message
...

Or what I did...
Delete it from Outlook Express using Edit | Delete
--
Jim Cone
San Francisco, USA
http://www.realezsites.com/bus/primitivesoftware
(Excel Add-ins / Excel Programming)


"Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB)"
wrote in message

In Outlook Express (OE) and Windows Mail (WM), the renamed version of OE
in
Vista, email messages that are future-dated will hang around at the top
(or
bottom depending on sort order) of the message list until that date is
reached (or until a more future-dated message is posted). One can remove
such a future-dated message in OE or WM, by posting a new message with the
identical subject line (not a reply to the message with the removed as
I
first did) to the newsgroup. Both OE and WM (I don't know what other
newsreaders do) will make the future-dated message (and any replies to it)
a
sub-thread of this newly posted message and thus removing the future-dated
message from the top (or bottom) of the message list. So, that is what I
did
and, in my newsreader, the entire original thread with the same subject
line
as this message has is now no longer at the top of my message list.
Rick

Hmm, for me in OE6 at the head of this thread is JLGWhiz's first reply with
subject prefixed ''
In the next level I see four sub threads, the last two both from Rick each
not prefixed with 'Re'.

Jim - for me, attempting to delete a messages does more harm than good, ie
my dbx gets bigger not smaller, albeit I can no longer view the message.

Things may have changed but the only way I know to fully delete a message is
to create some sort of Rule, eg delete messages older than x days.

Regards,
Peter T

"Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB)" wrote in
message ...
LOL ... Yeah, I guess that would have worked too. Let's just say, then, I
was trying to be nice to everyone else.<g

By the way, pressing the Delete key does the same thing as Ctrl+D or
Edit/Delete.

Rick


"Jim Cone" wrote in message
...

Or what I did...
Delete it from Outlook Express using Edit | Delete
--
Jim Cone
San Francisco, USA
http://www.realezsites.com/bus/primitivesoftware
(Excel Add-ins / Excel Programming)


"Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB)"
wrote in message

In Outlook Express (OE) and Windows Mail (WM), the renamed version of OE
in
Vista, email messages that are future-dated will hang around at the top
(or
bottom depending on sort order) of the message list until that date is
reached (or until a more future-dated message is posted). One can remove
such a future-dated message in OE or WM, by posting a new message with
the
identical subject line (not a reply to the message with the removed
as
I
first did) to the newsgroup. Both OE and WM (I don't know what other
newsreaders do) will make the future-dated message (and any replies to
it)
a
sub-thread of this newly posted message and thus removing the
future-dated
message from the top (or bottom) of the message list. So, that is what I
did
and, in my newsreader, the entire original thread with the same subject
line
as this message has is now no longer at the top of my message list.
Rick