Invisible unread messages

[robertmiles]

I'm finding some invisible unread messages in TB 3.1.11. In one
newsgroup, the column at the left shows 2360 unread messages - but
clicking on Unread shows an empty list.

I've already found a Mark Newsgroup Read option, but before I use it,
I'd like some information on whether these messages are anything I
want to read. Is there any way to open a few of them to see?

Note - this newsgroup has a set of rules for rather heavy filtering -
it's one of a few that certain kooks use when they decide to crosspost
to five different newsgroups, most of them not very relevant to
whatever they post.

I've already determined that none of the invisible posts started a
thread that still shows up on the all messages list.

[goodwin]

On 08/05/2011 11:35 AM, robertmiles wrote:
> I'm finding some invisible unread messages in TB 3.1.11. In one
> newsgroup, the column at the left shows 2360 unread messages - but
> clicking on Unread shows an empty list.
>
> I've already found a Mark Newsgroup Read option, but before I use it,
> I'd like some information on whether these messages are anything I
> want to read. Is there any way to open a few of them to see?

right click on the group, select properties, and then rebuild folder.
when done, you'll be offered all the messages to download again - if you
are that concerned about missing any. seems these numbers get out of
whack when using filters and killing threads. I just mark the group
read when I see this - I've never missed anything I'm aware of.

>
> Note - this newsgroup has a set of rules for rather heavy filtering -
> it's one of a few that certain kooks use when they decide to crosspost
> to five different newsgroups, most of them not very relevant to
> whatever they post.
>
> I've already determined that none of the invisible posts started a
> thread that still shows up on the all messages list.

see above

[Graham P Davis]

I'd just like to add that I've had the same trouble with TB - and with
Netscape before that - and it didn't involve filtering. In recent years,
by far the most error-prone newsgroup has been this one but I've never
used filters for this group.

The fix suggested by "goodwin" worked for me - sometimes - but I usually
had to revert to the old Netscape cure of deleting (or rather rename
with .OLD) a file or two. These days, I think I'd start with the .msf
files such as, for this group, mozilla.support.thunderbird.msf. I
sometimes had to delete/rename the appropriate newsrc file for the server.

I'm a bit rusty on this as I haven't used TB for a year or two to read
news. The main reason I changed newsreaders was this problem which, as I
say, has been around since the early days of Netscape, version 1.2N -
1995? - being the first time I encountered it.

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