OT: Resetting newsgroup meassage counters in Windows Vista Mail

My home ISP (Time-Warner) has discontinued USENET so I have tried a new free
server at Motzerella.org (sp?). I can post to their servers but no messages
appear when I synch the accounts. I emailed their support and they said it
is probably because my newsgroup message counters need to be reset. They did
not know how to do this. I tried Google to no avail.

Anyone have any ideas?

Mike

"Mike Marquis" <mmarquis@raytheon.com> wrote in message
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> My home ISP (Time-Warner) has discontinued USENET so I have tried a new
> free server at Motzerella.org (sp?). I can post to their servers but no
> messages appear when I synch the accounts. I emailed their support and
> they said it is probably because my newsgroup message counters need to be
> reset. They did not know how to do this. I tried Google to no avail.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?

Tools, Options, Advanced, Maintenance, Clean Up Now button, then
press the Reset button in the Local File Clean Up window.

Tom Lake

On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 10:49:57 -0500, "Mike Marquis"
<mmarquis@raytheon.com> wrote:

>My home ISP (Time-Warner) has discontinued USENET so I have tried a new free
>server at Motzerella.org (sp?). I can post to their servers but no messages
>appear when I synch the accounts. I emailed their support and they said it
>is probably because my newsgroup message counters need to be reset. They did
>not know how to do this. I tried Google to no avail.
>
>Anyone have any ideas?
>
>Mike

I'm not familiar with how Windows Vista Mail works with Usenet. With
Forte Agent, which is what I use and recommend, I'd probably delete
all messages and then "retrieve all" messages for the newsgroups I am
reading.

Perhaps Windows Vista Mail has similar functionality that you could
try.

Thanks Tom.

I'll give it a try tonight.

Mike


"Tom Lake" <tlake@twcny.rr.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> "Mike Marquis" <mmarquis@raytheon.com> wrote in message
> news:GsNak.1$Lo5.0@dfw-service2.ext.ray.com...
>> My home ISP (Time-Warner) has discontinued USENET so I have tried a new
>> free server at Motzerella.org (sp?). I can post to their servers but no
>> messages appear when I synch the accounts. I emailed their support and
>> they said it is probably because my newsgroup message counters need to be
>> reset. They did not know how to do this. I tried Google to no avail.
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Tools, Options, Advanced, Maintenance, Clean Up Now button, then
> press the Reset button in the Local File Clean Up window.
>
> Tom Lake
>
>
>

Thanks Journey,

This will be on my list of things to try if Tom's method doesn't work.

Mike


"journey" <journey@merr.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 10:49:57 -0500, "Mike Marquis"
> <mmarquis@raytheon.com> wrote:
>
>>My home ISP (Time-Warner) has discontinued USENET so I have tried a new
>>free
>>server at Motzerella.org (sp?). I can post to their servers but no
>>messages
>>appear when I synch the accounts. I emailed their support and they said it
>>is probably because my newsgroup message counters need to be reset. They
>>did
>>not know how to do this. I tried Google to no avail.
>>
>>Anyone have any ideas?
>>
>>Mike
>
> I'm not familiar with how Windows Vista Mail works with Usenet. With
> Forte Agent, which is what I use and recommend, I'd probably delete
> all messages and then "retrieve all" messages for the newsgroups I am
> reading.
>
> Perhaps Windows Vista Mail has similar functionality that you could
> try.

mike, the problem is likely because not only did time warner stop hosting
usenet news but they are likely also blocking the common ports used for
usenet. i don't know motzeralla.org, but i do know that
http://www.aioe.org/ offers free public usenet servers and they offer
standard and non-standard ports so that you can get around horrible internet
service providers that try to block the standard ports. very simple site,
very easy to configure. only down side is that they don't keep much more
than 30 days of history, have no binaries, and restrict your daily volume of
uploads and downloads - not a problem if all you are doing is reading a
handful of newsgroups and posting under 150 messages per day.

"Mike Marquis" <mmarquis@raytheon.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks Journey,
>
> This will be on my list of things to try if Tom's method doesn't work.
>
> Mike
>
>
> "journey" <journey@merr.com> wrote in message
> news:s8gn64l8f1p3672oc7iq8q6032ng3pd355@4ax.com...
>> On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 10:49:57 -0500, "Mike Marquis"
>> <mmarquis@raytheon.com> wrote:
>>
>>>My home ISP (Time-Warner) has discontinued USENET so I have tried a new
>>>free
>>>server at Motzerella.org (sp?). I can post to their servers but no
>>>messages
>>>appear when I synch the accounts. I emailed their support and they said
>>>it
>>>is probably because my newsgroup message counters need to be reset. They
>>>did
>>>not know how to do this. I tried Google to no avail.
>>>
>>>Anyone have any ideas?
>>>
>>>Mike
>>
>> I'm not familiar with how Windows Vista Mail works with Usenet. With
>> Forte Agent, which is what I use and recommend, I'd probably delete
>> all messages and then "retrieve all" messages for the newsgroups I am
>> reading.
>>
>> Perhaps Windows Vista Mail has similar functionality that you could
>> try.
>
>

On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 18:21:10 -0400, "Christopher Muto"
<muto@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>mike, the problem is likely because not only did time warner stop hosting
>usenet news but they are likely also blocking the common ports used for
>usenet. i don't know motzeralla.org, but i do know that
>http://www.aioe.org/ offers free public usenet servers and they offer
>standard and non-standard ports so that you can get around horrible internet
>service providers that try to block the standard ports. very simple site,
>very easy to configure. only down side is that they don't keep much more
>than 30 days of history, have no binaries, and restrict your daily volume of
>uploads and downloads - not a problem if all you are doing is reading a
>handful of newsgroups and posting under 150 messages per day.
>
>

I might add that if you use uncommon ports, you may have to address
this issue in your firewall.

Thanks Tom!

That did the trick!

Mike


"Tom Lake" <tlake@twcny.rr.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> "Mike Marquis" <mmarquis@raytheon.com> wrote in message
> news:GsNak.1$Lo5.0@dfw-service2.ext.ray.com...
>> My home ISP (Time-Warner) has discontinued USENET so I have tried a new
>> free server at Motzerella.org (sp?). I can post to their servers but no
>> messages appear when I synch the accounts. I emailed their support and
>> they said it is probably because my newsgroup message counters need to be
>> reset. They did not know how to do this. I tried Google to no avail.
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Tools, Options, Advanced, Maintenance, Clean Up Now button, then
> press the Reset button in the Local File Clean Up window.
>
> Tom Lake
>
>
>