From: john@heatons.fsnet.co.uk   
      
   Netscape 4.6, Windows 98SE: Following a strange crash yesterday I found that   
   my newsgroups kept disappearing. If I resubscribed they appeared in the list   
   in the state that they'd been left in and I could use them but when I closed   
   down and then reopened they'd gone. If I used an old profile which I knew   
   was previously working the problem remained.   
      
   Today I don't even get the line in the "Name" window which gives the address   
   of my news server and Netscape won't allow me to specify a news server in   
   the edit/preferences/newsgroup servers window (that is, it lets me try but   
   after typing the address it is totally ignored). If I create a new profile I   
   have to start each newsgroup from scratch, which is tedious when there are   
   60,000 messages in each to deal with.   
      
   If I create a new profile it seems to work OK but the odd thing is that my   
   original profile will now also use and apparently remember the newsgroups of   
   the new profile. If I subscribe in one profile it also appears in the   
   other(s).   
      
   I have done much uninstalling and reinstalling of Netscape but the problem   
   is gradually getting worse.   
      
   What I want to know is does anyone have any experience of similar problems.   
   There must be a file somewhere which holds relevant newsgroup and server   
   information which probably became corrupt yesterday after Windows crashed   
   whilst I was using newsgroups. Which file is it? What might I have manually   
   to delete in order that a reinstallation replaces any duff files?   
      
   JEH.   
      
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