Not sure whats going on here. I seem to get two types of digests, one
of which works fine.

The other has an attachment, which is a Notepad file titled "Start a
new life .... dump Windows".

This digest is full of odd charachters like =3D=3D=3D=3D and when I
click on a topic it takes me to the Google page for the group and
informs me that the "Topic Can't be Found".

I'm useing OE6 and IE6.

Am I doing something wrong?

Dave

Magician wrote:
Not sure whats going on here. I seem to get two types of digests, one
of which works fine.

What's a digest then?

The other has an attachment, which is a Notepad file titled "Start a
new life .... dump Windows".
This digest is full of odd charachters like =3D=3D=3D=3D and when I
click on a topic it takes me to the Google page for the group and
informs me that the "Topic Can't be Found".
I'm useing OE6 and IE6.
Am I doing something wrong?

Yes, you're using OE and googlegroups. Try using Thunderbird and a
proper ISP newsfeed.

Owain

Hi Owain
Yes, you're using OE and googlegroups. Try using Thunderbird and a
proper ISP newsfeed.

Ah! If I but knew what they were and where to get them :-)

Dave

Magician wrote:

Hi Owain
Yes, you're using OE and googlegroups. Try using Thunderbird and a
proper ISP newsfeed.

Ah! If I but knew what they were and where to get them :-)

http://www.mozilla.org for the first one...

Your ISP newsfeed is at news.blueyonder.co.uk (you will need that when
you setup a newsgroup in thunderbird (or any other software for that
matter).

A step by step for OE can be found he

http://www.blueyonder.co.uk/blueyond...ide_set upoe5

The process will be much the same for any newsreader.


(The reason you are getting the mystery attachment is actually a bug in
OE. Whenever it sees a line with the "begin" message that would be part
of the header that marks the start of an attachment it erroneously
assumes that it is one when in reality ot is just a bit of text in a
message. Some folks like to include tag lines in their posts that invoke
this bug on OE)


--
Cheers,

John.

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"Magician" says...
Hi Owain
Yes, you're using OE and googlegroups. Try using Thunderbird and a
proper ISP newsfeed.

Ah! If I but knew what they were and where to get them :-)

For a news server try news.blueyonder.co.uk
To access it try http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/