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Up until a week or two ago I was able to read and post usenet articles
on news.bubbanews.com with Thunderbird. It still works with Xnews but
not TB. TB does not download any new headers unless I tell it to
download them all. If I come back later, I can't get just the new
headers. It asks me if I want the last 500 or all. If I say 500 it goes
out to the server for a few seconds and does nothing. The only way to
get any new headers is by downloading all headers each time. Is anyone
else having this problem? How do I fix it? I've tried reinstalling TB
and that didn't help. I tried creating a new profile and migrating all
my settings to the new profile. That didn't help either. I am beginning
to think that either the news server or TB is not complying with
something in the NNTP protocol. Please help.

Thanks.

Chuck wrote:

> Up until a week or two ago I was able to read and post usenet articles
> on news.bubbanews.com with Thunderbird. It still works with Xnews but
> not TB. TB does not download any new headers unless I tell it to
> download them all. If I come back later, I can't get just the new
> headers. It asks me if I want the last 500 or all. If I say 500 it goes
> out to the server for a few seconds and does nothing. The only way to
> get any new headers is by downloading all headers each time. Is anyone
> else having this problem? How do I fix it? I've tried reinstalling TB
> and that didn't help. I tried creating a new profile and migrating all
> my settings to the new profile. That didn't help either. I am beginning
> to think that either the news server or TB is not complying with
> something in the NNTP protocol. Please help.
>
> Thanks.
On some of the other newsgroups I'm on, it seems to be bubba causing
the problems, and not TB. Some have been saying bubba added a
news-sniffer -- similar to the browser sniffer, that detects whether
you're using Moz/FF or IE.