And it came to pass that Wayne Mery wrote:
> Matt Williams wrote:
>> Christopher Jahn wrote:
>>
>>> And it came to pass that Jonas J�rgensen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Mike Hatz (Remove the SPAM) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> What's going on? The news server seemed to eat about
>>>>> 4-6 days of posts and then most everyone else has
>>>>> vanished from the newsgroups....
>>>>
>>>> You're using <snews://secnews.netscape.com>. Try using
>>>> <news://news.mozilla.org/>. (They are actually the same
>>>> server -- the difference lies in the "news" vs "snews".)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Apparently there is some issue between the two servers,
>>> as I've heard complaints in the netscape6 group about
>>> posts missing from the Secnews.netscape.com server.
>>>
>> I was one of the early complainers. The easy solution is
>> to create a new account for the Mozilla newsgroups with
>> port 119 and the SSL box unchecked. Then you delete the
>> Mozilla newsgroups from the Netscape news account which
>> has port 563 and the SSL box checked.
>>
>>
>> Matt
>
> Matt, Jonas,
>
> I got bit by this and hadn't been getting news since about
> late February. By dumb luck I checked the groups today and
> found your postings.
>
> I'm sure other people are having trouble.
>
> Is there any advantage to using secnews versus news?
> (is there anyplace that discusses the difference?)
>
> Is there an advantage to news via news.mozilla.org versus
> secnews.netscape.com?
>
NEws.mozilla.org hasn't demonstrated the problem with mozilla
groups noted by others on secnews.netscape.com.
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