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Why have I stopped getting new news articles?
THOR
Download ResetNews.lha (1517K). Unarchive this file and copy ResetNews.thor to your Thor/Rexx directory, and run it from Thor's Arexx Script menu. After the next collection of news, you will need to select "Delete Duplicates" from THOR's General menu.
MicorDot-II
MicoDot doesn't have a mean of resetting the counters manually. To fool it into thinking they need changing, change the news server address to anythin in the Account settings and click OK.
MicroDot will ask if you want to reset the message pointers, click Reset. Now go back into the Account settings, change the server back to news.u-net.com and click OK and Reset again.
Explanation
If you are interested in why this change needed to be made. A newsreader keepos track of which articles if has downloaded by recording the number of the highest article in each newsgroup. The next time you collect news, it collects all articles after this one and stores the new high number.When the server was switched, the article numbers on the new one are different. They are lower because it is a newer server. This means your newsreader thinks it has already got all of the articles on the server, because it has stored higher numbers than any of the articles offered. Resetting the counters make the newsreader forget its previous placemarkers and strart again.