"Paul" <nospam@needed.com> wrote in message
news:h2j36t$tmc$1@news.eternal-september.org...
> Martin Racette wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I had to switchto a new server since the 1 July and since then I see no
>> messages, on any of the newsgroup
>>
>
> It you'd reset your article numbering, this wouldn't happen.
>
> Newsreader clients keep track of article numbers, with their "newsrc"
> file, but across all platforms, the software designers may not
> use that name. That is the name you might have found in a Unix
> environment. For example, if I edit my .rc file, (which I did),
> and set
>
> alt.comp.hardware: 1-1
>
> and then connected to Eternal-September, my newsreader would pull
> new articles until it was up to date.
>
> If a person subscribes individually, to the newsgroups, one
> at a time, the article numbering should also end up proper
> and consistent. But I just copied my .rc file, for one news server
> to the other, so I had to reset the article numbering. If I
> had not done that, a potential side effect would be, no new
> articles showing up.
>
> Paul


BOY!! there's one in EVERY group! Ask him what time it is and he tells you
how the watch works.

:)