In a previous article, "gibelium" <gibelium@arcor.de> said:
>newsserver (e.g. "news" and "open"). The groups "internal.data" and
>"internal.news" are "displayed" (Outlook/Mozilla show that there are for
>example 130 messages in the "internal.data" group), but no messages or the
>list of the messages are displayed... :-(
>
>I think it's not a client problem.

The best way to verify that it's not a client problem is to telnet to the
nntp port and issue commands like so:
mode reader
group internal.data
listgroup internal.data
head <number>
and so on.

However, in a case like this it seems that the most frequent problem is
that your overview database is corrupt. Rebuild it. See the makehistory
man page for details on how.


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