Dennis Crandall said:
Using windows Vista Windows mail, after receiving a full listing of available groups on bellsouth.net and giganews, I cannot subscirbe to alt.binaries.food. I know the group is there on the servers but it is not showing up in the list of available groups. Using any other client, I can find and subscribe to this group.
The following steps are a temporary work-around for this bug, which we have submitted to Microsoft;
1) Remove newsgroups account from WindowsMail.
2) Remake your newsgroup accouont in Windows Mail.
DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE LIST OF GROUPS!
3) Click on Start, then Run.
4) In the text box, type: news://addressof.your.newsISP/alt.binaries.food and hit enter.
(This will open up the group in Windows Mail.)
5) Right-click on the groupname in the left panel, then left-click on Subscibe in the dropdown menu.
6) Repeat steps 3 -5 for any other groups that you have this same problem with.
7) Now you can download the list from the server and proceed like normal.
Again, this is a temporary fix until Microsoft fixes the bug.
Dennis Crandall
Newsmaster - News Wrangler
at&t Southeast