2 questions: 1) list of MIDs, 2) automation

Hi, I'm new to Hamster and have a few questions:

1) Could someone explain the getmids.txt file for me?  I've been 
using Hamster for a few days now, and I have run into my first real 
frustration here.  I was pulling my newsgroups and downloading the 
bodys into my newsreader (Agent) when several errors regarding the 
getmids.txt file came up (one was concerning opening, the other 
saving I believe).  I shut everything down and restarted, hoping this 
would help things out.  I have two servers set up and I took a look 
at the getmids.txt file for the server that I was NOT using when this 
error occurred; this file was full of message IDs (I think that's 
what they are- look similar email addresses).  I don't see why, 
because I had pulled all the articles for this server a few minutes 
before hand; the number of MIDs in there by far outnumbered the 
number of articles that I normally pull for this server. 

When I do a pull for this server, Hamster said "get list of MIDs" and 
it stays here (for about 15 mins now).  The connection is active and 
something is being transmitted, but I'm not sure what it is/what to 
do.  I'm going to let it run for a bit longer, but I'd like to know 
what happened here; is it rebuilding a database or something that got 
corrupted by a bug or what? The number of News articles loaded (on 
the status bar) is going up, but it's not showing me what group it's 
working on like it has always done before (in the log window).  

2) I have a script written to pull from 2am to 8am, both of my 
servers, with a 240 minute repeat included with the AtAdd command.  I 
guess I actually have two questions related to this: 
  a.  Should Hamster disconnect and stop pulling news at 8am or does 
the 8am limit simply stop further repetitions (and let the current 
jobs finish)? 
  b.  Will the scheduler start running the subroutine it is told to 
the next time 2am comes around (the next day), or does that AtAdd 
only schedule for one day?  If it only schedules for one day, what's 
the best way to keep it in there each day?  Some sort of goto/while 
loop in the script? 

I'd appreciate any help you guys can offer!  Thanks much.



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