Usenet Explorer

I am currently trialling UE but am hitting a brick wall when it comes to certain things (a comprehensive help file is required).

1. in config dialogs there appears to be a 'standard' of having blank buttons underneath input boxes - what are these intended for?

2. in Watch/Auto headers do the settings cascade down, so if I set something for Newsgroups it will cascade through all groups, or if I set properties for a folder it will affect all groups in that folder?

3. I can't seem to figure out 'auto get headers'. I have set a time against all groups in 'Watch/Auto header' of 180 and I have made sure that on the 'tasks' menu 'Enable auto get headers' is ticked.

4. Can the settings in the 'Newsgroups' tab be explained please.

5. I have another computer in my garage. If I change the Database folder (General tab) to be on a network drive will I be able to have the machine in the garage scheduled to start UE at midnight and run till 8am to update headers and perform downloads and then during the day use a second machine to review headers and queue up downloads?

Thanks in advance
Al

the blank check buttons are for copying pasting selected options, you check several buttons, then press copy (the properties of the current entry will be used), then select several items and press "paste". e.g. you can change max number of tasks for all servers this way instead of going from server to server.

watch/auto it won't set cascading changes in watch/auto properties pane but it will be rather effective this way during header download, e.g. if you set something for the folder it will be effective for all newsgroups in the folder, you don't need to open folder though, i mean it is just logical association.

auto get headers can you first check selected topics on the webpage http://www.netwu.com/ue there is an entry describing the settings.

you can put UE into the start menu. you cannot run two instances in the same time on the same database but you can instance with database over network, properties->general->database folder, it can be anywhere.

settings in the newsgroup tab, initial filter you need to check out filters in the selected topics, load mode probably described in help notes but it can be left as it is, retention, header per server maybe you should know what it is, sort by, threads, collections is view settings (threads if you use text groups, collections read on the website, it is heuristic related binary post entries grouping into one entry).