Re: Thunderbird- comments

de John Corliss 05/29/2006 02:27

ms wrote:
> On Sun, 28 May 2006 12:51:26 -0700, John Corliss wrote:
>
>> Path: uni-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!feed.xsnews.nl!feeder.xsnews.nl!sn-ams-06!sn-xt-ams-05!sn-ams!sn-feed-ams-02!sn-post-ams-02!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail
>> From: John Corliss <jcorliss@fake.invalid>
>> Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware
>> Subject: Re: Thunderbird- comments
>> Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 12:51:26 -0700
>> Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com
>> Message-ID: <127jvq11j3em720@corp.supernews.com>
>> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308)
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>> References: <1ajx9faqxsqik.1xvcnhp4uzbz6$.dlg@40tude.net>
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>> ms wrote:
>>> I have been using the generic family since Netscape 3.1 days, through
>>> Roundabout/Phoenix/Pagasus (IIRC), that became Mozilla Thunderbird.
>>>
>>> Thunderbird has worked fine for me for several years. But several months
>>> ago, it started showing multiple headers for each post in a newsgroup. This
>>> same problem happened in W98SE, then on a different machine in W2K. Same
>>> problem with 3 versions of Thunderbird. Virus scans and malware scans show
>>> nothing.
>>>
>>> Recently, with help from Mike Dee and wwald, I did some steps to try to
>>> correct this problem. This included uninstall, then manually cleaning out
>>> every entry in W2K, then using RegSeeker to clean it out of the registry.
>>>
>>> Reboot, then a clean new install of TB 1.5. The first day was fine. With no
>>> changes on my hard drive, no reboot, the next day, TB had the problem
>>> again. So it developed the problem by itself.
>>>
>>> TB has a very nice GUI and newsgroup display IMO, like the old Netscape.
>>>
>>> But I've come to the conclusion that Thunderbird is not reliable, which for
>>> a program is for me a heavy comment to make.
>>>
>>> Advice on this?
>> Mike,
>> I don't have any problems whatsoever with Thunderbird. Sounds to me
>> like your ISP might be screwing up.
>
> John, individual.net has been very reliable, and Xnews and 40tudeDialog
> seem to work fine in individual.net.
>
> My ISP, Copper.net, has been rock-solid.
>
> And, of course, TB worked for years for me just fine.

All right Mike, you've convinced me that the problem lies with TB then.
Have you done the following?

First, start TB and right click on your usenet account name, select
"Properties".

In the window that opens, "Account Settings", make sure the account name
is selected and then press the "Remove Account" button to delete the
account.

Close TB.

Go to your profile folder for TB, the one that has a subfolder named
"News". The location of your TB profile folder varies from version to
version of Windows. I don't know which version you're using.

Delete everything in that folder. This will destroy any corrupt .dat,
.msf and .rc files for that account which you may have. Thunderbird
doesn't destroy those files when you unsubscribe from a group or even
delete a usenet account, so you must do it manually. In fact, usually
the profile folder itself isn't touched when you uninstall Thunderbird,
so uninstalling and reinstalling TB wouldn't do you any good.

Restart Thunderbird and recreate your usnet account, redownload the
group names list and resubscribe to alt.comp.freeware.

This should correct the problem I hope.

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