Vista - error message when reading newsgroups

very often this is encountered;

Message could not be displayed
Windows Live Mail encountered an unexpected problem while displaying this
message. Check your computer for low memory or low disk space and try again.

a case of low memory?

running WinXP Pro SP3 with 1Gb of RAM

Low memory is rarely the problem.

What sort of Internet connection do you have? If you've lost your
Internet connection, that can cause error message.

Also, if it's been several minutes since you downloaded any news headers
or any news bodies, you can get that error.

News server are designed for intermittent activity. You make a logical
connection to the news server, download some headers, read a bit,
download some articles, read a bit, etc. You keep an open connection
during this, so as to avoid the overhead of establishing a connection
for each article. But the server has to eventually disconnect idle
sessions to avoid overload. This tends to be about a 5 to 20 minute
idle time. The news server administrator sets this disconnect time.
(This is separate from any physical Internet connection). IF you've
exceeded the idle disconnect time, then you may get that error message
on the next action. But if you retry it will work.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



"Sul@xxxxxx" <sulxxx@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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After analyzing a logfile from Windows Live Mail for newsgroups
activity, I'd say that WLM is more likely to disconnect connections
from its end than wait for the server to do it. It disconnects
connections that have been idle for only about 15 seconds. Still,
it's a good idea for the server to do it eventually if something
goes wrong with the connection before WLM can tell it that it's
disconnecting.

No idea if WLM has any setting that allows adjusting this time
to drop idle connections.

Robert Miles


"Michael Santovec" <michael_santovec@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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