When I get the messages for a particular newsgroup, Netscape marks them all “read” as they are downloaded. Whats wrong?
There is a file, the .rc file, that keeps track of which messages you have read in a given newsgroup on a given news server. It sounds like that file has gotten munged and has a “last message read” number that is too high. You’ll usually have one .rc file for each news server on which you read newsgroups. The name of the file is usually similar to the name of the news server it tracks. For instance, my .rc file for newsgroups.borland.com, is forums.rc. Opening it I find this line: “borland.public.jbuilder.non-technical: 1-8996”. If I set that final number, 8996, to a much higher number, all of the messages that have a message number less than that number will be marked as read everytime I open the newsgroup. If you use Netscape Communicator to read news, you’ll find the .rc files under …\Netscape\Users\(profile name)\News.
