Odd Message Counts

I occasionally have similar; I think it's a problem whereby Tbird gets 'out of synch' with the news server.

You can try compacting the folders, in extremis unsubscribe and resubscribe to the newsgroup. Dpeending on the server's retention this can mean several xx thousand headers to download again though.

Owain

No problem with nin here.

Tried everything including unsubscribe/resubscribe - no change! That is why I asked - hoping it wasn't just my computer. Thanks.

Have you killed any threads with the "K" key? it doesn't initially disregard new messages to such threads, until you click on the group, then they disappear.

Am familar with that. I have - but not in the past few days. (At least one reboot of the PC ago.) This has only been happening today. Thanks.

I see this (with T'bird) and have always assumed it is my troll filters throwing things away without me seeing them.

Andy

Exactly what I have thought - but I really don't have many filters and none have been triggered this month.

A few minutes ago I "saw" 43 unread - which almost immediately changed to 1. Clicked on another group and back, flicked to 43 then 1 again. Read the 1 message. Now shows no unread messages.

But I *still* see individual threads apparently with unread messages. Expand the thread - none unread. :-(

Sounds like your ISPs newsfeed has switched to a new set of sequence numbers. Can be at its most irritating when they have several machines answering to the same name (via DNS rotation) and one is different from the others.

When that sort of thing has happened before, things have sorted themselves out. Odd that it is one NG, unsubscribe/resubscribe doesn't help, the errant threads show unread - expand and there are none - collapse and the unread indication re-appears.

As I am using Berlin/nin, I thought someone else would see the same problem if it were them?

Still happening on the threads I identified earlier - but not spreading. I shall just have to ignore it unless it gets worse.

Thank you all.