Filtering the News

After you become familiar with a newsgroup, you might decide that you don't want to retrieve messages from a particular person, about a specific subject, of a certain length, or older than a certain number of days. This is called filtering newsgroup messages.

Filter Unwanted Messages

Click the Tools menu, point to Message Rules, and then click News.

If necessary, click New.

Select the conditions for your rule.

Select the actions for your rule.

Click any undefined value, such as the e-mail address you want to divert and the folder where you want to store the unwanted messages, and then provide information.

Type a name .

Click OK.

Click OK.

Did You Know?

You can ignore or watch a conversation . Select the conversation you want to ignore or watch, click the Message menu, and then click Ignore Conversation or Watch Conversation.