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    From Paul Quinn@3:640/1138 to August Abolins on Mon Nov 2 10:56:40 2020
    Hi! August,

    On 01 Nov 2020, August Abolins said the following...

    I am noticing that Thunderbird (TB) is dropping some subscribed ngs
    over time - and thus forcing me to re-subscribe. And when that
    happens, all previously "read" messages appear unread.

    Anyone else experiencing that in your config?

    Nope. Though I do use an old T'bird, version 31.7/Linux32 IIRC.

    If you're having troubles with Tommi's system, then tell him. I did a 'refresh' on his NNTP on thr weekend, and chose a new group. No problems,
    then or any other time.

    Stay loose & have fun!

    Cheers,
    Paul.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/32)
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  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Paul Quinn on Tue Nov 10 07:48:00 2020
    Hello Paul!

    ** On Tuesday 10.11.20 - 15:06, Paul Quinn wrote to August Abolins:

    You can revert to an older version. (I did it myself,
    yonks ago.) IIRC, it;' on the Mozilla website. Do a
    search for 'go back to an old version of thunderbird';
    it's in their knowledge base. Then, disable upgrades/
    updates forever!

    That's how I'm still doing 31.4 (not .7). :)


    I used 2.0.0.24 on my XP system for a long time (as you might
    be able to tell from messages in this echo if you go back far
    enough). It was wonderful, and seemed very reliable. I don't
    remember why I needed change. Now I am at 3.0.11. I think
    it's the last version that works with XP.

    But, having just loaded it up and take a look.. I see that it
    has dropped ALL the ngs that I had Subscribed with rbb.bbs.fi.

    :(

    I am not sure that rolling back will help.

    Something must be confusing in the .rc to fail? The
    rbb.bbs.fi.rc file is about 260K in size. Trying to look at
    it with Notepad++ caused an Explorer fail.



    --
    ../|ug

    --- OpenXP 5.0.46
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  • From Ed Vance@1:2320/105 to August Abolins on Tue Nov 10 10:59:00 2020
    11-09-20 23:47 August Abolins wrote to All about TB dropping ngs
    Howdy! August,

    @MSGID: <5FAA3AE4.2223.windowsb@capitolcityonline.net>
    @REPLY: <5F9F1488.2213.windowsb@capitolcityonline.net>
    ** On Sunday 01.11.20 - 18:31, August Abolins wrote to All:

    I am noticing that Thunderbird (TB) is dropping some
    subscribed ngs over time - and thus forcing me to re-
    subscribe. And when that happens, all previously "read"
    messages appear unread.

    Anyone else experiencing that in your config?


    ::::UPDATE: It appears that TB on my Win7 pc has given up.
    Every reload attempt fails with the only options to either
    Restart/Quit and/or send the debug report to Mozilla.

    I feel so let down by TB. I had considered it to be extremely
    reliable over the years.

    Moving the Profile environment to another Win7 pc produces the
    same results. It is having a problem with something in the
    Profile set of files. I wonder if there is a way to exclude
    (perhaps delete) some of the larger ng files and recover. I'd
    hate to reconfig every server and all my email stuff.

    Sorry to hear about Your TB problems.

    I use TB on this XP 32-bit computer just for Email.
    I tried once reading BBS messages in a newsgroup link but wasn't satisfied doing it that way.

    Many years ago I thought to use TB's "Compact" option, thinking it would
    reduce TB using some HDD Space, after Compacting finished TB's In-Box didn't have any messages in it.

    I think I had over 1000 messages in the In-Box before I Compacted TB but
    I never have been able to learn how I could had recovered those messages
    back when they disappeared.

    I had made some Sub-Directories below the In-Box Directory for storing
    messages by Topic and the Compacting process didn't mess with the messages
    I had put in those Sub-Directories.

    See Tagline.

    73 de Ed W9ODR . .

    ... Here On Earth Computers Alway Win Because THEY Have Inside Information
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