webster72n said:
Sorry, but no can do, Paul, even with reloading.
OK, let's compare notes.
This would be my folder with the various subscribed newsgroups in it.
There is a file in here called "hostinfo.dat", a text file. When you
refresh the groups list, that file should get updated, and a new
datestamp of today should be used on the file.
C:\Documents and Settings\My Username\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\4zqwo50y.default\News\nntp.aioe.org
I open "hostinfo.dat" with Notepad. Scroll to the bottom.
Highlight the last line. Use Use:Goto dialog to get the line
number of the currently highlighted line. That number is 28513.
The last line is "free.de.soc.gesundheit,,1,0,0". There are 10
lines at the beginning of the file that are not newsgroups.
That leaves a group count of roughly 28503.
Using the same file, I can find this. Using Edit:Goto, this
is at line 20926.
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general,,1,0,0
You're using Seamonkey, which is going to be slightly different
than the Thunderbird I'm using. This seems to suggest that it
too uses hostinfo.dat, one per NNTP server.
http://seamonkey.ilias.ca/profilefaq/
In the directory above that, is the file that has the current
subscription information. I split this on two lines, to make it
easier to read. The file itself is relatively small, as I
don't subscribe to that many groups.
C:\Documents and Settings\My Username\Application Data\Thunderbird\
Profiles\4zqwo50y.default\News\nntp.aioe.org.rc
If I scroll to the bottom of that, I can see the newsgroup
I freshly subscribed to moments ago. The numbers are a way of
keeping track of which articles I've read, out of that group.
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general: 1-89035,89113,89119
If you shut down your newsreader, edit that file and set it like
this, this will pull in the maximum number of new articles that
are available. The NNTP server uses low-water and high-water marks,
and setting the file to this, it claims the user hasn't read or
fetched any info yet. I've used this trick for years, with various
clients, to get as many articles into the list as possible.
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general: 1-1
After you scan the NNTP server, the numbers will update, as will the
display of headers. If the client and server lose synchronization
on the low and high water marks, attempts to fetch articles will
fail to produce new articles. Resetting the values to "1-1",
will ensure the end up synchronized.
On Thunderbird, unsubscribing then resubscribing, won't properly
define the water marks and correct things. Some other clients, they
properly clear themselves, when you do that. But Thunderbird doesn't,
which is why you may occasionally need to edit nntp.aioe.org.rc.
Have a look in your folder, and see what's in there. If you do
it with the Seamonkey client exited, any changes you make to the
file are more likely to be kept.
If refreshing the groups list is not updating hostinfo.dat and
changing the date on the file, then something is broke.
Paul
