Technical note:    10018
  Created:           05/23/95 by Trip
  Last modified:     07/11/95 by Brian
  Product:           Netscape Navigator

There are two reasons why the Netscape Navigator might not let you
read news articles from your news server (and give you errors when you
try to):

One is that your news server possibly isn´t up to NNTP standards, and
can´t retrieve articles by their standard NNTP message ID.  (Some
older news servers can only retrieve articles if you provide the local
article number.)

The other is that the history database on your news server might be
corrupt and needs to be rebuilt.

If you are having trouble reading news from the Netscape Navigator,
then investigate these possibilities with your local system
administrators.