Your problem may be caused by the specific newsgroup, (most likely). It
could be caused by Folders.dbx, (less likely), or even a damaged identity.

As far as Folders.dbx goes, from Tom's site:

Understand though that you will lose the mail tree structure, all lists of
newsgroups, and all synchronization options, and that message rules will
likely need to be edited.

The only problem with the tree structure is any subfolders will be under
Local Folders and have to be dragged back to their previous location. Not a
big deal. Losing the newsgroups will take more time to recreate. Also
deleting Folders.dbx does not, {should not}, result in any loss of messages.

For your identity:

You may have a damaged identity especially if it is the default Main
Identity. File | Identity | Add New Identity. Create a new one and test it.
If all is well, you can import your messages from the old identity and
delete it.

How to Create and Use Identities in Outlook Express
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=209169
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
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About a month ago, OE began crashing when I accessed a certain newsgroup.
It was a group I hadn't been reading much, so I unsubscribed and the
problem was gone. Or, more correctly, it was lurking, waiting for the next
newsgroup. The problem's back today. The crash occurs at two different
times: When I manually click on a certain NG, or when OE scans all groups
for new messages.

Incidentally, I never have more than 50-75 messages in the Inbox, and I
allow auto compacting to do its thing when it wants to.

At http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/, I've read that deleting folders.dbx
will cause the loss of my folder tree structure. I assume this means that
all messages will be blended into one gigantic list. Not good. I'm
wondering if the steps shown below might work. I have twice-daily backups
I can restore, in case of trouble. And, I'm referring below to mail.
Newsgroups aren't that much of a concern at the moment.

1) Delete folders.dbx

2) Start OE and manually delete all messages.

3) Import messages from the latest backup.

The import would get its data from a backup folder which contains the
older, and possibly corrupt folders.dbx. Will I simply be importing the
same problem I began with?