Thanks, everyone, for all your help. I think I might have found the solution thanks to songbird:
> then remove the zero length file and remove the .overview file > for that group and see if you can then get that message again. > i think a missing .overview file should be regenerated every time > there is a new article downloaded. I didn't realize that there were hidden files in each group's directory. Sure enough, I found files named .minimax, .overview, and .servermin. Deleting .overview seems to correct the problem. Tim Woodall: my NNTPSERVER was OK. Again, thanks to everyone. -- /~\ Charlie Gibbs | Life is perverse. \ / <[email protected]> | It can be beautiful - X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | but it won't. / \ if you read it the right way. | -- Lily Tomlin

