News group problem

[News Junkie]

Have an odd error ...

I'm connecting to a news server (verizon) and having trouble viewing all the
newsgroups. The indication is that only 2,367 groups exist. I've gone back
and forth with support and they swear it isn't them. I tried the same
settings on a windows box (Outlook Express) and I see many thousand
newsgroups (50K+). Maybe they are right. Is there some setting within
Entourage that I'm neglecting? Why would the number of groups be limited
(note I do see the microsoft groups)

Thanks, in advance, for your help.
p.s. Found that hooking up to aioe.cjb.net works well - over 50K groups

 

[Diane Ross]

I'm connecting to a news server (verizon) and having trouble viewing all the
newsgroups. The indication is that only 2,367 groups exist. I've gone back
and forth with support and they swear it isn't them. I tried the same
settings on a windows box (Outlook Express) and I see many thousand
newsgroups (50K+). Maybe they are right. Is there some setting within
Entourage that I'm neglecting? Why would the number of groups be limited
(note I do see the microsoft groups)

Thanks, in advance, for your help.
p.s. Found that hooking up to aioe.cjb.net works well - over 50K groups

AFIK there is no setting in Entourage. This sounds like your ISP's settings.
Have you tried in a different newsreader?

MacSoup, MT-NewsWatcher, Hogwasher, Thunderbird, and Unison are a few that
are often mentioned as a fav. You can find a list of Mac newsreaders here:

<http://www.newsreaders.com/mac/clients.html>

You'll find the FAQs for Entourage newsreader here:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/accounts/news.html>