skibum227 wrote in message
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My wife recently reformatted our HD and I lost the news groups. I go
through the process and it starts to download the groups but stops
after a short while .

Well, that means you already got past the login procedure because you
started to download the list of newsgroups. Perhaps the unnamed NNTP
server to which you connect doesn't have very many groups and that is
why it ends soon to retrieve the list of those newsgroups.

It appears that the login is wrong but I am pretty sure it is right.

You could not download ANY newsgroups is the login was invalid.

I had this problem before and as I remember some of the numbers were
wrong.

sigh And what do YOU mean by "some numbers".

Would you send me the numbers I need to set it up again. Thanks

No one can tell you what are the "numbers" because you did not provide
any details of what "numbers" you need. Plus this is a newsgroup, not
a venue for free support from your unnamed NNTP provider. Ask the
NNTP provider how to configure for using their service as they would
obviously know that information.