Re: phantom posts

Robert Holtzman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
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 messages are canceled or superseded messages.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.

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