FWIW I took Ron's advice of Edit, Catch Up without thinking and it certainly
corrected the issue, and of course showed all messages as read. My initial
response meant that Tools/Get Next nnn headers did not yield additional
posts ie all were downloaded.

I have recently also noticed that some posts within a watched thread are not
shown in Red. So maybe there was some other problem. Again only in xp
general, which I imagine is one of the largest groups.

So, its still a mystery to me - and one which would be near impossible to
replicate. But it was only a nuisance.

Thanks to all.


"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote in message
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: "Ron Sommer" wrote in message
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: ...
: ::: one of my ms newsgroups is red bold even though there are
: ::: no new messages in any of the watched threads.
:
:
: :: You have a watched message on the server that is not downloaded.
:
:
: So that means that you have done Edit, Catch Up?
:
:
: Ron,
:
: Isn't that independent of his View?
:
: Your initial suggestion made me think that you were thinking that his
: Current View might be Show Downloaded Messages.
: Hence, Watched headers might be hidden by that view.
:
: Depending on what he does for getting new messages though
: that state wouldn't last too long normally anyway.
: E.g. Watched headers seem to have the equivalent effect
: of headers which are marked for download, at least as far
: as synchronization commands are concerned.
:
: So then we'd need to hypothesize a different Current View
: than Show Downloaded Messages to explain the symptom. ; )
:
: Easier just to posit that the identity's broken and suggest create a new
one?
:
:
:
: ::: Any ideas?
:
:
: It only takes one *message* to be Watched to cause the symptom.
: If you are sorting by Watched Conversation (e.g. with Group Messages
: by Conversation checked) and only looking at the watched threads
: which sort to the top of the message list you could be ignoring other
: unread messages which are also marked Watched below the
: Watched threads. Try either turning off threading and then checking
: with Ctrl-u that there are no unread watched messages or create
: a new view called Watched which filters out only watched messages
: and see then how many unread messages the Status bar shows for
: that view. If Ctrl-u finds a Watched message or if the Status bar
: in a Watched view shows a nonzero number for "unread" you would have
: an explanation for your symptom.
:
:
: :::
: ::: Thanks
: :::
: ::: Bill
: :::
: ::: XP2, fully patched IE7 OE6
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