Missing newsgroup in Windows Mail

[Dick Day]

Thanks to a botched Vista SP1 install I had to reinstall (not restore) the
entire system much to my regret.

In the process I added a newsgroup account in Windows Mail and downloaded my
regular newsgroups but could not find alt.binaries.food which I have been
reading for quite some time (And in fact still reading it on a XP machine
with OE so I know the group is alive and active).

After messing with it for over a day I chatted with EarthLink and other than
to say its a "Vista problem" they provided no real help or direction.
When I Google "missing alt.binaries.food and Vista" there are an amazing
number of people with the same apparent problem description but no proposed
or found solutions.

Then I added Thunderbird to the Vista system this afternoon and viola,
alt.binaries.food is there alive and well. So it doesn't appear to be this
computer but rather either something in Windows Mail or my setup.
Does anyone have a clue? Or does this seem to point in some direction to the
group?
Thanks for any comments as I would rather use Windows Mail rather than the
switch to Thunderbird.
Dick

 

[Bill]

Thanks to a botched Vista SP1 install I had to reinstall (not restore) the
entire system much to my regret.

In the process I added a newsgroup account in Windows Mail and downloaded
my regular newsgroups but could not find alt.binaries.food which I have
been reading for quite some time (And in fact still reading it on a XP
machine with OE so I know the group is alive and active).

After messing with it for over a day I chatted with EarthLink and other
than to say its a "Vista problem" they provided no real help or direction.
When I Google "missing alt.binaries.food and Vista" there are an amazing
number of people with the same apparent problem description but no
proposed or found solutions.

Then I added Thunderbird to the Vista system this afternoon and viola,
alt.binaries.food is there alive and well. So it doesn't appear to be this
computer but rather either something in Windows Mail or my setup.
Does anyone have a clue? Or does this seem to point in some direction to
the group?
Thanks for any comments as I would rather use Windows Mail rather than the
switch to Thunderbird.

Dick

Alt.binaries.food is available in both my ISP's newsgroup list and that for
free.teranews.com to which I also subscribe. On this machine I am using
windows mail under Vista Home Premium. The newsgroup is similarly available
on my laptop using windows.live.mail.

Think I'd be going back to your ISP if I were you although most of them in
my experience have little interest in newsgroups at all.

HTH

Bill

 

[Steve Cochran]

Try downloading the list of newsgroups again from your server.

You can also try accessing the NG without having it listed by composing a
link as follows and then clicking on it:

yournewsservername /alt.binaries.food

Remove the spaces and supply your newsserver name.

steve

 

[Dick Day]

Thanks to both Bill and Steve. I know the ISP's list is OK because I can see
and read the alt.binaries.food group on the same computer but using the
Thunderbird application. I also have an XP system with OE and can also read
the newsgroup from the same ISP.....so I am pretty sure it is vista or
windows mail related. I see others via Goggle having the same issue with the
same newsgroup, Vista and Windows Mail....not conclusive but curious.
Steve have reset the newsgroup list a few times with no different result but
you gave me a thought to delete the list on the hard drive and start over.
I'll try that next. Your link idea does prompt the newsreader but does not
find alt.binaries.food
Thanks for all the mental energy!
Dick

 

[Dave]

Several months ago, a poster stated they had this same problem. At that
time, I checked, and verified that the alt.binaries.food group did not show
up in Windows Mail on both my Roadrunner and Giganews accounts. That group
did show up on both servers using Agent, and still does.

I just added those news servers to Windows Live Mail, and that group does
show up on both servers.

I then added those news servers to Windows Mail, and that group shows up on
Roadrunner's server, but not on Giganews.

After downloading the groups list, I searched for "food" on both.

 

[Dick Day]

Thanks Dave.
All on the same computer, I added the same newsgroup account to Windows Live
Mail and found the newsgroup.....and much to my amazement I still do not get
it on Windows Mail.
All on the same server, all with the same account info! Looks buggy to me!
Dick

 

[Guest]

My ISP says their newsgroup server has both alt.binaries.food and
alt.binaries.food.sushi available, but when I tries to subscribe to the
first one, Windows Mail was unable to find any sign there was such
an available newsgroup.

Also, I tried a disk search for all files under my user account that
contained alt.binaries.food. About 70 files were displayed as a
result, but I was unable to find alt.binaries.food or
alt.binaries.food.sushi
mentioned in any of them, even though most of them were newsgroup
messages older than the last few messages mentioning either of them.

This suggests that there's some bug in the search routines that makes
them unable to search for the string alt.binaries.food.