[TFN-help] Newsgroups via Velocet

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 help@torfree.net wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Kenneth Alan Boyd Ramsay wrote:
> > >
> > > I was subscribed to several busy newsgroups, back brfore we temporarily
> > > lost our e-mail connection to the Internet.  As of Aug. 4, some of these
> > > newsgroups were completely empty (0 messages), and others had a single
> > > message saying "Group Download in Progress", dated Jun 5.
> > >
> > > Expecting that it would take a while to catch up, I waited.  As of today,
> > > the only change is the dates are now Jun 16.
> > >
> > > Just wondering what the problem is, and if it can be fixed easily.
> >
> >     I have just installed a script to update users' newgroup files; you
> >     should see this message once:
[snip]
>
> Great... thanks for taking care of this. Do you have any idea if ppp
> offline newsreaders would be affected?

    { If they're using PPP they're not off-line :) }

    Probably.

    If the newsreader keeps track of read messages in a .newsrc file,
    it's just a matter of removing the numbers after the newsgroup:

           comp.unix.shell: 1-13063,13323,13390-13424

    Change to:

           comp.unix.shell:

    I don't know about other (non Unix-style) newsreaders. Perhaps just
    unsubscribing and resubscribing will do it. If not, delete any
    configuration file and resubscribe.

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