What!!!?

I just checked this group about ten minutes ago. And now there are 65
new messages???

Okay, people, something's wrong.


--
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net/
The obituaries in the newspaper prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that
people die in alphabetical order.

Ed Mullen wrote:
I just checked this group about ten minutes ago. And now there are 65
new messages???

Okay, people, something's wrong.

Compare your message header, to your
other messages. The message you just posted
is different.

The message you just posted, has this suspicious content:

http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi...ews.alt.net%3E

X-Mozilla-News-Host: snews://news.altopiacom:563

Now, the URI is mis-spelled and is missing the period between
altopia and com. And besides, the server is news.alt.net.

Somehow, you have managed to type a URI to trigger
the news reader in Seamonkey, instead of selecting
Window : Mail & Newsgroups.

You may have clicked someone's snews link on a web
page, and "jumped" to that server address. And you
are assuming that everything is normal, and you're using
your normal setup right now. Apparently not.

You are pointed at something, but exactly what (old
or deprecated server address) who can tell.

Close your newsreader window, then use
Window : Mail & Newsgroups and try again. See
if altopia is now listed twice. One of the
entries is likely the borked one.

Paul