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 In article <825700190_OASIS_@rjelwell.demon.co.uk>
  rich@rjelwell.demon.co.uk (Rich) said:-

> In article <825625938_OASIS_@coconut.demon.co.uk>
>  mike@coconut.demon.co.uk (Mike) said:-
>
>>Just to show I am a complete novice in certain things ;-)
>>
>>How does one go about downloading binary files from groups such as 
>>alt.binaries.celebrities ?
>>
>>I'm told that there's a nice picture of Kylie ;-) in here, but although 
>>added to my active groups, nothing gets collected. Do I have to do 
>>something extra?
>>
>>Feel a prat or what............
>>
>>ATBeST
>>Mike
>
>I've had a problem with downloading certain newsgroups.
>First of all make sure that your Startup.nos file has the correct
>news server listed, mine has the following line in it :
>
>         nntp addserver news.demon.co.uk 5000
>
>The problem I had was that some groups worked and some didn't.
>I found a file called nntp.dat in \spool\news\.  For some reason
>part way down the file was a line listing a different news server.
>Once this line was removed all the newsgroups came through OK.
>
>I felt like a prat the next time I logged on because it downloaded
>everything from several newsgroups that I had picked but not got
>anything from.  I had added a group, got nothing and picked another
>without removing the first.  It took quite a time to finish getting
>all of it I can tell you.

I've been victim to this as well and it happened on a day where I was 
just adding groups willy nilly. Of course once I found and removed the 
line I also took the time back a month being the fool that I am! That 
got me a newsfeed of thousands and thousands of articles.

Fortunately "tcp res ..." saved the day!


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Guy Harrison

guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk