Newsreader problems?

Question

I am not sure if I have a problem on my computer, or if something funny is going on in newsgroups. When I first select the newsgroup 'folder' in my Netscape, it pings the news server and gets the number of new messages in each group. Then, when I select each group, it downloads the message headers for that group.

Lately the number of message headers it downloads is only a fraction of the number of new messages it said were there. That fraction is about a quarter. Today it said there were well over a hundred new messages in rms. But it only downloaded 34 headers. This seems like a very low amount of traffic for rms. Also, sometimes I have not seen my own posts, though I get email about them, indicating some people are seeing them, even if I didn't.

I am using a fairly old version of Netscape, but also have a fairly recent Mozilla, and that does the same thing.

Harro de Jong · Accepted Answer

(Don Stauffer) wrote in :This is likely a problem with the news server you're using ( ?). Contact your ISP.

William H. Shuey · Answer

Don:

How many killfiles have you got?? I too have Netscape 4.7, and I got into a similar problem some time back when one of my attempts at kill fileing some fool backfired and started rejecting all sorts of messages.

Bill Shuey

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Ron · Answer

Have a large killfile by any chance?D

Keeper · Answer

Remember that you can have multiple messages attached to only a few headers. The biggest one showing up on mine is "Highest Prices..." with 51 messages.

Aside from that there may be a hiccup in your ISP. hth

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

Greg Heilers · Answer

More than likely, it is an ISP issue (or the local outfit that your ISP farmed its work to).

For example, I have EarthLink dial-up. Several times in the past couple of months, I have tried to access UseNet, only to get an error message saying that access to the EarthLink news server is for EarthLink customers only. I was understandibly upset, at their failure to recognize me.

However it seems, that it was the local "access number guys", who were assigning dynamic IP addresses, which were *not* from blocks reserved for EarthLink customers. So, I was naturally not seen as a loyal EarthLink subscriber.

The point? It is most likely an issue outside your computer....

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