Hi
"Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[PINE]
SH> Here is my description of the problem:
SH> When I attempt to compose a note to post to a newsgroup, or if I
SH> should attempt to forward a post, or reply to a post, a message will
SH> appear at the bottom of my screen saying "Validating Newsgroups".
SH> Usually the computer is locked up at this point and I have to do a
SH> cold re-boot.
hmm .. this appears here also, but it vanishes very fast, and than the
message is sent ...
Have you tried another newsserver ??
(you can try news.wu-wien.ac.at ... for non-university IPs only some at.*
newsgroups are readable ...
You can try to wwrite to at.test , but I don't know whether writing is
allowed ...)
SH> Sometimes an error message is returned saying that no
SH> smtp server has been identified for posting to newsgroups.
Interesting ... SMTP has nothing to do with newsgroups ...
SH> I can find nowhere in my setup file any place where a separate entry
SH> for the smtp server is required for posting to newsgroups.
it is not ...
SH> Here is another problem: Whenever I access a newsgroup, all of the
SH> old messages that I've already read are also displayed. I try to
SH> exclude the old messages, but that doesn't happen. Whenever I do a
SH> news run I will get all the new postings plus all the old ones. I
SH> don't know what I'm doing wrong.
You don't do anything wrong ...
That's IMHO normal behaviour.
SH> Sam Heywood
CU, Ricsi
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