I downloaded version 09C (all revision = 50) and had the same problem.
VSoup doesn't pick up anything in the newsgroups it finds (only 3), and it
skips a bunch. Souper run immediately after runs fine.
The command line, and results are:
[D:\TEMP]d:\util2\vsoup\vsoup -m -l 900 -a -i -N D:\yarn2\home\newsrc
nntp://holcombj:password@news.mindspring.com
vsoup: connected to news server news.mindspring.com (getNews)
vsoup: 0 unread articles in mindspring.local.triangle
vsoup: 0 unread articles in mindspring.users.os2
vsoup: 0 unread articles in mindspring.users.linux
vsoup: totally 502 bytes received, 0 articles read
vsoup: 2.5s elapsed, throughput 200 bytes/s
vsoup: 4 threads were connected successfully
[D:\util2\souper]emxrev
EMX : revision = 50
EMXIO : revision = 50
EMXLIBC : revision = 50
EMXLIBCM : revision = 50
EMXLIBCS : revision = 50
EMXWRAP : revision = 50
-- ....................................................................... Jim Holcomb http://www.pobox.com/~jholcomb jim.holcomb@pobox.com Cary, NC, USA