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From: Andy Botterill on 1 Oct 2009 17:49 I follow the comp.lang.verilog newsgroup. Around the 28th september I stopped getting news articles. My news supplier is gradwell. I deleted all newsgroup filters with no effect. After doing offline->Download/sync now on all of the newsgroups I subscribe to I have started to get newsgroup articles. News is behaving strangely. I get 11 unread messages for comp.lang.vhdl I click on the newsgroup and then there are no unread articles. Something strange is going on. Is there any way to set the clock back by a week and reloading all of my subscribed newsgroups? What sort of things can cause this? I'm using fedora 8 and thunderbird 2.0.0.19 . Thanks in advance for any help. Andy PS: I did have to re-start my ADSL connection around the time that this happened. e-mail is working normally.
From: Martin Gregorie on 1 Oct 2009 20:47 On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:49:05 +0100, Andy Botterill wrote: > I follow the comp.lang.verilog newsgroup. Around the 28th september I > stopped getting news articles. My news supplier is gradwell. I deleted > all newsgroup filters with no effect. After doing offline->Download/sync > now on all of the newsgroups I subscribe to I have started to get > newsgroup articles. News is behaving strangely. I get 11 unread messages > for comp.lang.vhdl I click on the newsgroup and then there are no unread > articles. Something strange is going on. > I stopped using Thunderbird for USENET when it did similar things to me and switched to Pan instead. I'd suggest you do likewise. My experience with Pan was less then delightful, especially when it forgot that it had been configured with a UK English dictionary and refused to resume using it. The final straw was when, for the second time, it lost all my NG subscriptions - something that could only be recovered by deleting the .thunderbird directory structure and effectively reinstalling from scratch. I'm just amazed that, when Firebird is so good, Thunderbird should be such a POS. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |
From: Ivor Jones on 1 Oct 2009 21:10 On 02/10/09 01:47, Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:49:05 +0100, Andy Botterill wrote: > >> I follow the comp.lang.verilog newsgroup. Around the 28th september I >> stopped getting news articles. My news supplier is gradwell. I deleted >> all newsgroup filters with no effect. After doing offline->Download/sync >> now on all of the newsgroups I subscribe to I have started to get >> newsgroup articles. News is behaving strangely. I get 11 unread messages >> for comp.lang.vhdl I click on the newsgroup and then there are no unread >> articles. Something strange is going on. >> > I stopped using Thunderbird for USENET when it did similar things to me > and switched to Pan instead. > > I'd suggest you do likewise. > > My experience with Pan was less then delightful, especially when it > forgot that it had been configured with a UK English dictionary and > refused to resume using it. The final straw was when, for the second > time, it lost all my NG subscriptions - something that could only be > recovered by deleting the .thunderbird directory structure and > effectively reinstalling from scratch. I'm just amazed that, when > Firebird is so good, Thunderbird should be such a POS. > > No problems here with Fedora 11 & TB 3.0b3 but I did read in uk.net.providers.gradwell that there have been problems with their news servers lately so maybe it's that and not your system. Look in that group for info, it's late and I don't remember details offhand. Ivor PS why Fedora 8, that's going back a bit, isn't it..?!
From: crn on 1 Oct 2009 21:47 Andy Botterill <andy(a)plymouth2.demon.co.uk> wrote: > I follow the comp.lang.verilog newsgroup. Around the 28th september I > stopped getting news articles. My news supplier is gradwell. I deleted > all newsgroup filters with no effect. After doing offline->Download/sync > now on all of the newsgroups I subscribe to I have started to get > newsgroup articles. News is behaving strangely. I get 11 unread messages > for comp.lang.vhdl I click on the newsgroup and then there are no unread > articles. Something strange is going on. This was caused by a problem at the (now outsourced) news.gradwell.net. The problem seems to have gone away, just doctor the counts in ~/.newsrc to sort it out for tin or slrn, not sure if this works for thunderbird. More of the sorry tale in uk.net.providers.gradwell.
From: Andy Botterill on 2 Oct 2009 03:33
Ivor Jones wrote: > On 02/10/09 01:47, Martin Gregorie wrote: >> On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:49:05 +0100, Andy Botterill wrote: >> >>> I follow the comp.lang.verilog newsgroup. Around the 28th september I >>> stopped getting news articles. My news supplier is gradwell. I deleted >>> all newsgroup filters with no effect. After doing offline->Download/sync >>> now on all of the newsgroups I subscribe to I have started to get >>> newsgroup articles. News is behaving strangely. I get 11 unread messages >>> for comp.lang.vhdl I click on the newsgroup and then there are no unread >>> articles. Something strange is going on. >>> >> I stopped using Thunderbird for USENET when it did similar things to me >> and switched to Pan instead. >> >> > No problems here with Fedora 11 & TB 3.0b3 but I did read in > uk.net.providers.gradwell that there have been problems with their news Ah that would explain it. There was lost connections reported on the gradwell site but nothing about usenet. > servers lately so maybe it's that and not your system. Look in that > group for info, it's late and I don't remember details offhand. > > Ivor > > PS why Fedora 8, that's going back a bit, isn't it..?! I got this PC probably 2 years ago and and went from FC4 to FC8. How easy is it to upgrade the o/s I've generally done it on a blank hard disk/new system. I am thinking about buyng a new laptop so that has made me think about a later release. Let me check what o/s my design software is reported to work on. > |