why can't I get all my newsgroups any longer?

What do I have to do to get them back...

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Miriam Feldstein wrote:
Path: <snip> corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138
Subject: why can't I get all my newsgroups any longer?

Your newsserver path line indicates that you are an EL client whose news
was recently outsourced to supernews. As a result of this changover,
two things can influence your perception that you are unable to access
groups that you previously got.

One factor is that the newsservers news.east.earthlink.net and
news.west.earthlink.net which used to access the newsserver
news.earthlink.net not longer do so. news.earthlink.net is at
207.217.125.201 an EL IP, but the west and east are at 216.168.3.70 a
supernews IP.

As a consequence of that, your OE's 'concept' of the accounts which you
used before may need to be upgraded by resetting the newsserver's list.

In OE, this list resetting is performed by selecting the newsserver
account in the L folder view which causes the R pane to show a function
with 3 buttons, one of which is named 'Newsgroups'. If you click that
button, you will access a function for that news account called
'Newsgroup subscriptions' and the newsgroup subscriptions function has a
button on the R called 'Reset List'. If you click that button, your
newsreader will redownload the newsgroup list which may give you access
to newsgroups which seemed to be inaccessible before you reset the list.

However, that is not the only problem which you may be encountering.

Another problem is that EL has neglected its news administration for a
very long time, whereas supernews keeps up with its news administration
and supernews does not feed the rogue newsgroups which have no charter
and such as that. So, there are newsgroups which were present on the
'old' EL server which are not present on the supernews server. Two such
examples recently discussed in EL support groups were comp.os.linux and
comp.os.linux.admin -- both of which groups have been deprecated for
over a decade in favor of their succeeding groups.

So, if your groups are to be found on the supernews server, you should
be able to find them by resetting the accounts list of newsgroups as
described above; whereas if your groups are /not/ to be found on the
supernews server, you should create an account for the old EL server at
news.earthlink.net and use that server to access your groups.

Or, you can create an account on some other newsserver, free or
otherwise, which carries the groups you want.

 

I detect that you are posting from North Miami Beach and you have a
husband named Seymour, which is nothing to be ashamed of. You have India
ink stains on your fingers and you pick your nose when nobody is
looking. But I can't figure out your newsgroup question due to lack of
information. What reader? Outlook Express is what you posted this
message with. Try resetting your groups.

 

You have to grovel, my dear.

HTH

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