The article date filter gives you control over what articles to scan for images. When articles are pulled from a newsgroup, the posting date is inspected and compared to the start date in the filter. Articles that are older than the start date will be ignored while others will be scanned for images.

Groups
These are the newsgroups that will be searched in your collection.

Last Date
This is the date of the last article processed in the newsgroup. As each article is scanned for images, the most recent article post date is saved as the ‘last date’. This field is empty if the newsgroup has not been searched.

Start Date
This is the date to start the image search. All articles with a posting date that is older than the start date will be ignored. You can customize the start date for each newsgroup by clicking the date field and selecting a date on the calendar.