MT-NW Error Message (2nd Request)

[Richard Kriss]

I still get the following error message from MT-NW 3.3b1:

====================
An error occurred when NewsWatcher tried to send a command to your news
server.

NewsWatcher sent the following command:
NEWGROUPS 691230 060526

The server sent the following response:
501 bad command usage
====================

My ISP (Great Barrier Reef aka gbroline,com) is clueless as to what's
going on and feels there may be a bug in my MT-NW

Anybody understand this error message and what, if anything , I need to
do?

Dick

[Steve W. Jackson]

In article <kriss-206320.05514719082003@central.isp.giganews.com>,
Richard Kriss <kriss@gbronline.com> wrote:

:> I still get the following error message from MT-NW 3.3b1:
:>
:> ====================
:> An error occurred when NewsWatcher tried to send a command to your news
:> server.
:>
:> NewsWatcher sent the following command:
:> NEWGROUPS 691230 060526
:>
:> The server sent the following response:
:> 501 bad command usage
:> ====================
:>
:> My ISP (Great Barrier Reef aka gbroline,com) is clueless as to what's
:> going on and feels there may be a bug in my MT-NW
:>
:> Anybody understand this error message and what, if anything , I need to
:> do?
:>
:> Dick

In my experience, any time an error message is returned by MT-NW, it
also includes some kind of info as to possible sources of the trouble.
That includes info indicating whether the error is most likely on the
server end or on your end. What did *that* part say?

Otherwise, I'd just be guessing that this is part of an attempt to get a
list of new groups. If you've previously been able to use the news
server, you might try changing prefs so that it doesn't automatically
check for new groups. If not, then it seems likely this error may be
preventing you from getting the complete group list to begin with.

= Steve =
--
Steve W. Jackson
Montgomery, Alabama

[Richard Kriss]

Ron,

The good news is I got rid of the error by trashing the MT-NW preferences
file. The bad news is I can no longer post new messages using MT-NW 3.3b1. I
am responding to your posting using MS Entourage because something is wrong
with my MT-NW or there is a problem at my ISP with the news server

Dick

On 8/20/03 12:03 AM, in article
[email]ron-shepard-8FA0FB.00032720082003@news.comcast.giganews.com[/email], "Ron Shepard"
<ron-shepard@NOSPAM.comcast.net> wrote:

> My ISP recently changed from attbi.com to comcast.net. attbi
> maintained its own newsserver, but comcast uses giganews.com. When
> the ISP changed, I had to reconfigure MT-NW, and I also started
> getting these error messages at startup. I switched from MT-NW 3.2
> to 3.3b1 trying to get rid of these error messages, but I still get
> them after the change.
>
> So, I don't have the answer, but you are not alone.