Re: Still having Trouble with VM and this NG

bob.minchin@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On 29 Mar, 11:36, Richard Edwards <poundea...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:33:41 +0100, Richard Edwards



<poundea...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:12:29 +0000, Bob Minchin
<nos...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
At the risk of being boring, I still have no new posts visible to me in
this NG since 18th march but can still post.
I've just seen your reply Martin from 23rd via google. Yes I am using
news.virginmedia.com server.
All other NGs I read are coming through OK.
Is anyone else having similar probs with VM?
Regards
Bob
I have changed my defaults and am posting this with Virginmedia as a
test.
Richard
Ok immediate response. Not sure what your problem may be. What reader
are you using if not using Google?

Richard

Hi Richard,
I am using Sea-Monkey (successor to Netscape) and all my other regular
newsgroups are working ok through this news reader.
I know I could change my reader but I just don't understand by one
particular NG is not working for me and for example Colin D above is
OK using the same server.

Regards

Bob


When I was using Netscape, it would occasionally hiccup and lose
track of how many messages had been received for a group. As a
result, it would think that the number of the last message in the
group was much higher than it actually was. So when the server
said, for example, that new messages 123444-123555 were available,
Netscape would ignore them because it thought the last message it
had gotten was 222222.

I would fix this by going into the .rc file that Netscape used to
keep track of messages received and changing the last message
number for the affected group to something much lower.

Unsubscribing and resubscribing to the group might or might not
work. It depends on whether your newsreader completely deletes
all information about the group when you unsubcribe (in which
case the problem will be fixed) or just marks the group as not
active but retains the old info (and consequently, when you
resubscribe, it'll mark the group as active and the old *bad*
info will still be in effect).

Unfortunately, since I don't use Netscape anymore, I can't tell
you just where to find the .rc file to be changed. Given your
server, it'll probably be named news.virginmedia.com.rc and be
in a folder something like
C:\Documents and Settings\...\Application Data\Netscape\Profiles\...\News

If you find it and the group's line is more than just something
like "uk.rec.models.engineering: 1-123456" but has a long string
of numbers, just change the numbers to something like 1-2.

HTH,
Tove
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