Thanks for that feedback. It was pretty "flakey" early on and there were
lots of complaints and they fixed it. Now here's hoping they fix remaining
bugs.
--
Jim Pickering
MVP-Outlook Express/Windows Mail
Please reply to newsgroup only so that others may be helped with your
feedback.
"Lang Murphy" <lang_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23FQmuVetGHA.1808@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Jim,
>
> Yes, I can verify it's been fixed. Just installed 5472 and can get NG's
> that bombed in B2.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lang
>
>
> "Jim Pickering" <jimp@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news
AC65EE9-60BB-4DBC-BAD2-9B39D1F95C00@microsoft.com...
>> The build you are using had a problem with news servers that host a large
>> number of newsgroups (25,000 or more). This has apparently been fixed in
>> later builds. If you have access to the later builds as an authorized
>> beta tester via the Connect site, you might want to download an updated
>> build. If you are a member of the public beta test only, then an
>> alternative fix would be if you know both the name of the news server and
>> the newsgroup you want to enter the info using a link constructed as
>> follows and insert that info into the Start/Run line:
>>
>> news://nameofnewsserver/nameofnewsgroup
>> --
>> Jim Pickering
>> MVP-Outlook Express/Windows Mail
>> Please reply to newsgroup only so that others may be helped with your
>> feedback.
>>
>>
>> "Robin" <robinandtami@nospam.com> wrote in message
>> news:A1C7CF80-4671-4D4C-920E-034909366FD2@microsoft.com...
>>> I'm having trouble subscribing to newsgroups in Vista mail. I've put
>>> all of my server info in correctly, and it attempts to download the
>>> groups, but an "unknown error" occurs about halfway through the list.
>>> None of my favorite groups show up. It seems as though all I have
>>> access to are the alt.binary groups. Any ideas?
>>>
>>>
>>
>