{{diane}}, a bit frustrating fer sure. was just at google poking around
and the "marked read" feature seems to be a bad overlook by those guys.
Of course i emailed them expressing a desire to see this feature
implemented.

besides having that "Major Problem" i found some the the new changes
better than the old. I didn't use it long enough to establish a flow of
any kind. I remember using google several years ago for a few months and
it basically made me crazy cause of its awkwardness. That doesn't seem
to have evolved positively in any real way.

Hope you get your newsreader back soon.

johnie

mailed & posted,

AOL people on other groups are having the same problem.

The solution is:
With AOL as your ISP you can goto http://news.individual.net/  &
sign up. It's Free.

Then goto http://www.mozilla.org/  & download Thunderbird 1.0.
It's Free.

When they send back your username & password install Thumderbird
with that information & subscribe to alt.med.fibromyalgia & any
other newsgroups you want.

To post & read messages, Dial in to AOL then minimize (don't
close) the AOL program, open Thunderbird & here you are.

You can set Thunderbird to download all the messages so you can
read them & respond off line which can save a lot of online time.

The neat thing is you can use both the AOL news reader &
Thunderbird at the same time to see if AOL has caught up.

GramPaHugs,
Alex,

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You can subscribe to the group then you only have to sign in every 2
weeks. You can also opt to receive the messages via e-mail.  Not a
great option with all the trolls about.  I think Alex has the best
suggestion, although it might work with outlook express the same way.
I have had stability issues with Firefox so I am not sure I would want
to mess with thunderbird (something about my computer configuration
that I have not been able to pinpoint). You will likely have to
minimize AOL. If you get your password you might also download forte
free agent and see if it works.   I use the paid version forte agent
and they have a ton of rules and filtering options.   I never see  the
nasty stuff that is being posted even when they morph.  There are
several options you can use once you get the password and account.
The Berlin server does a good job of filtering much of the spam.  

Visit my website:
http://www.mzuschlag.com

I know you are on AOL but that shouldn't stop you from
signing up for the German Newsgroup reader. I read
newsgroups in Netscape. Here is the link if you decide
to branch out.
http://news.individual.net/
Duckie