I have the same issue - no news shows up. My Options are set to "allow". And even if I click "options" and then "check internet now", I still get no news. Clicking on the LEGACY NEWS header DOES take me to their web site.
Bob On 01/04/2014 18:14, Don Hanson wrote: > > I disabled my anti-malware and my firewall, and still have no > retrieved news items. Only the red link that goes nowhere. If I click > on Legacy News, I go the News webpage. A thought…IE 10 is the > installed browser on Win7. I have seen some unexplainable behavior > with one of my sites using IE10. > > No, there is more going on here. Looking at the source code, the a > href=â€legacy.link.news.refresh†is the link for the Make sure you are > connected…message. That link doesn’t load regardless of any (or no) > prefix used. It is the same in Firefox as IE 10. > > Don Hanson > > *From:*Kurt Kneeland [mailto:kurt-kneel...@sbcglobal.net] > *Sent:* Friday, January 03, 2014 10:49 PM > *To:* LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > *Subject:* RE: [LegacyUG] No Legacy News? > > On the Legacy Home tab, there is an Options button in the upper right > corner, click that and then the Options item on the popup menu. On > the dialog box, make sure Allow Legacy to Connect to the Internet is > selected. But this would only block the news items from coming up by > default, they should still come up when you click on the “Retrieve†> message. Only thing I can think of is there is something external to > Legacy that is blocking that particular function for you, possibly a > firewall or antivirus function but it seems strange that the news > retrieval would be blocked and nothing else. If you click on the > Legacy News header, does the Legacy Family Tree News webpage open? If > that also fails it may be a problem with your ISP’s Domain Name Server > not recognizing the *news.legacyfamilytree.com* name (vs > www.legacyfamily.com <http://www.legacyfamily.com> or just > legacyfamilytree.com). > > *From:*Barbara Thomas [mailto:barb...@sheridanclose.freeserve.co.uk] > *Sent:* Friday, January 03, 2014 4:47 PM > *To:* LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > <mailto:LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com> > *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] No Legacy News? > > No - you're not alone. I get the same message > > Barbara > > > On 03/01/2014 22:31, Don Hanson wrote: > > I know that there were many entries in Legacy News under the Legacy > Home tab before the Holidays. Now there is only a red ‘Make sure you > are connected to the internet and then click her to retrieve the > latest news items.’ Clicking does nothing. The pointer changes to > the finger when I hover the link. All of the other internet related > help works. When I go to Legacy News on the web, there are entries > dated during this time. So, am I alone? > > Don Hanson > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) > and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) > and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) > and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) > and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). 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