Refreshing NG, Anne?

Hi Anne

Since yesterday I try to refresh this ng - no chance. After about 30%, Netscape 4.75 stops with an error message:
'Beim Diskussions-Server ist ein Fehler aufgetreten' (german)
''With the discussion server an error occurs'

The same with Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 which hangs at the same percentage without any error message.

What's the reason for this and why are there some empty junk messages with no title and dates around 1970 or 2030?

I've done the whole procedure with deleting cache several times...

Cheers

 

Isn't it too bad that some things we like don't work anymore. I too use
Netscape and was using 4.75 for a long time - until recently. It appears
XP with SP2 presents some problems with 4.75 so I had to upgrade to 7.1.
I am not particularly happy with 7.1, but still prefer Netscape to
Microsoft.

 

Hi Walt

Using still W2kSP4 and had no serious problems until now. In parallel working with Mozilla Thunderbird (latest version) and have the same problems...
Can't be the reader software!

Cheers

 

What can I say? Having watched Autodesk discussion groups for a couple
of years, I notice some users have a problem with a particular software
while other users are alright. Then there are other seemingly
"ridiculous" problems - usually minor. Perhaps I'm lucky - I don't know.
I have a Dell, 986Mhz (2 1/2 years old), 256Mb ram, R2004, XP with SP2
and a host of other software on a 40Gb hard drive (getting a 120Gb hard
drive later today). I guess we all have to realize that what we are
dealing with are electrons whizzing around and it's a miracle we can do
any work at all.

 

Hi
I use Outlook Express and I find with this NG that when you use the
"Catchup" command you are in for a long wait with the program apparently
locked up.

The wait is at least 5 to 10 times longer than any other NG I subscribe to.

As a result, I do a Crtl-A, right-click, Mark as Read sequence just for this
group.

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Laurie Comerford
CADApps
www.cadapps.com.au

 

Hi Juerg -

I use Netscape 4.75 and am not seeing what you are at all. I wish
I could help you further but I don't have any idea what is wrong.
My only suggestion would be to delete your .rc file which you
will find in the Netscape program file and reload the groups. You
might want to save off your current .rc file somewhere else on
your computer in case you want to restore it.

I'll try to see what I can find out for you but there aren't many
of us who use Netscape.

 

Hi Anne

Got it in meantime...
Same procedure also in Mozilla Thunderbird:
- Deleting group info from *.rc
- Deleting *.snm respectively *.msf
- Reloading the group in steps (10'000 at one go)

Cheers

 

Try the new release of Netscape (7.2) just made public in the last
couple of weeks. It's faster than earlier releases and works great.