Re: phantom posts
Robert Holtzman <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.slrn.user |
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| Message-ID | <alpine.DEB.2.00.0812141453100.9430@localhost> |
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Jörg Sommer wrote: > Hello Robert, > > Robert Holtzman <[email protected]> wrote: >> Often there are numerous messages listed for a newsgroup but when I >> download them there are only a few. The latest exmple is rec.guns which >> showed 171 messages but 5 were present after downloading. Not sure if >> this is a slrn problem or a news server problem. > > It's neigther a problem of slrn nor the news server. These phantom > messages are canceled or superseded messages. The news server > increments the article number for each message. Slrn later tries to > fetch the new message, but the server doesn't deliver the deleted > messages. Slrn can't see which messages aren't available until it tries > to fetch them. Hi Thanks for the reply. It's good to know I don't have a problem. -- Bob Holtzman A fair fight is the result of poor planning. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/