Re: Outlook express 6 bizarre behavior of news reader

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TeraNews is pathetic. I've been having exactly the same issues
(MT-Newswatcher here) for a week. And no response to my emails. I'm
having these problems on their pay server, mind you. They are about to
get ditched.

Brian.Hickling wrote:
> Has anyone else had a problem with Outlook Express after their news provider
> has made a server change?
> My news provider warned users to delete and recreate the news server account
> since all message ID's would change.
> So I deleted the account then recreated it (verifying that I used identical
> settings).
>
> Results:
> - news server login OK (account and password valid) reread of newsgroups
> list completes with no problem.
> - enormous message counts - millions - when you subscribe to any group
> - then after about 30 seconds a reasonable count (however it is completely
> different if you delete and resubscribe)
> - after another delay nothing actually downloads and then not even a 0 is
> left as count. As if everything has been read.
> - no error messages at all either from outlook or the server.
> - my other news provider using the same OE 6 software still works fine (as
> you can see from the posting of this message).
>
> Teranews (my news provider) seems unwilling to respond despite sending
> several messages and have not mentioned any problems on their status page.
>
> I cannot find a single page describing a similar Outlook or news server
> problem on the internet!
>
> I am using XP Pro and Outlook Express 6.
>
> Perhaps outlook keeps some information concerning the old news server
> message headers even when it is deleted and then reuses it on recreate?
>
> However I tried a single news group that I had never used before and the
> problem is identical.
> The initial massive count for any group is always a bigger number
> (38,000,000+) it seems that all messages on the provider are initially being
> seen as valid for any group!
>
> I tried a delete account - logout - clear temporary files and then a
> recreate but with the same effect.
> Its 5 days since the news provider changed its server so its hard to believe
> they could leave millions of paying users without a service.
>
> Someone out there must have an idea? (if possible short of a complete
> reinstallation of outlook and a risk of losing all my emails and my working
> news account)

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