Strange behaviour with Microsoft Communities

[Gordon]

I subscribe to two news servers in Windows Mail - one the MS News server and
one a non-MS news server.
The MS News server exhibits certain weird behaviour in that several groups
constantly list a small number of messages not downloaded, no matter what I
do, whether I mark all read, or use the catch-up function, or Get the next
300 headers. Also the "Show Replies to my posts" function goes awry - if I
set the view to that, it works on the first group I set it on, but if I go
down through the group list, without changing the View from that, WM does
NOT display replies to my posts, I have to uncheck it and re-check it for
each group.

The non-MS news server, on which I also subscribe to the very same groups as
the MS news server, displays NONE of these strange behaviours. Does anyone
have any idea why the MS news server should behave like this? (Didn't with
OE.......)

 

[Steve Cochran]

There are some unresolved bugs that have to do with the "Show replies . . ."
features. Also the server counts are almost always estimates before the
actual message downloads and then even after that they sometimes so "not
downloaded messages" which don't really exist, but which rather are
mismatches of the actual server count.

Long story short: there's not much you can do. One thing is to uncheck the
"download xxx headers at a time" as that has traditionally been a big
problem with OE and persists with WinMail.

steve

 

[Gordon]

There are some unresolved bugs that have to do with the "Show replies . .
." features. Also the server counts are almost always estimates before
the actual message downloads and then even after that they sometimes so
"not downloaded messages" which don't really exist, but which rather are
mismatches of the actual server count.

Long story short: there's not much you can do. One thing is to uncheck
the "download xxx headers at a time" as that has traditionally been a big
problem with OE and persists with WinMail.

steve

Thanks - the point I was making is that it doesn't occur with another news
server subscribed to on the same instance of WM!

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Can't say I have seen what you describe, but I'm on a high-speed Internet
connection, and I always keep the "Get xx headers at a time" unchecked.

 

[Steve Cochran]

The problem is the newsserver's numbering system and how its handled by the
newsserver. Each newsserver is going to have its own system.

steve