At 08:04 PM 5/18/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi !
>
>I'm using the Netscape 6.01 NNTP news-reader to follow newsgroup messages
>on a DNews system. When I connect to the DNews server and expand the list
>of newsgroups I've subscribed to, the newsgroup names appear but
>newsgroups with NEW messages in them do not appear <B>BOLD</B>. I have to
>click on each individual newsgroup name to see if there are new messages
>in them. Netscape 6.01 works fine with other newsgroups that I follow on
>a Netscape Collabra server. Netscape Communicator 4.5x also works fine
>with DNews in showing in <B>BOLD</B> newsgroup names that contain new
>messages since I last read them. So, it really seems to be a problem
>between DNews and Netscape 6.01. Since I follow more that a 100
>newsgroups on that specific DNews server, it is a pain to have to click on
>each newsgroup name to see if new messages were posted in them.
>
>Thanks in advance for your help !
I think this is a numbering problem that occurs when news servers
change their numbering for any reason.
To fix in netscape 6 try deleting that account and re-adding it. That should
clear out the old values and it should then work ok.
chrisP.
