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Re: Trouble seeing new articles with Free Agent
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 29 Sep 1998 20:10:24 GMT
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sarah@eskimo.com (Perhaps a Princess....) writes:
> On Tue, 29 Sep 1998 19:40:50 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman)
> wrote:
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> > sarah@eskimo.com (Perhaps a Princess....) writes:
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> > > Interesting. When you reset the groups, Todd, I had this exact same
> > > problem with Agent. I wondered why I was not getting any mail in
> > > announce or lugnet.general :) THen I did a manual Get All Messages and
> > > downloaded 7 in announce and 39+ in lugnet.general. ANd it is
> > > downloading new fine now.
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> > I fixed the problem -- and I think it affected everyone, not just Free
> > Agent -- I introduced a stoopit bugaboo when I diddled with the cancel mods
> > last week. Here's a repost of the article I posted 2 days ago right before
> > the groups were wiped:
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> But I was not having the same problems when you were having it.
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> Rather, I had the problem only in the groups which
> 1) were wiped, but stuck around
> 2) I had old messages still sitting in inside of Agent. (because of
> information I needed to follow up on)
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> I had to do a manual get all before the problem was solved. Luckily,
> it did not get to the point of unsubscribing.
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> Sarah Heacock
> sarah@eskimo.com
Aha, gotcha, OK, I'll bet it was the old messages sticking around.
No NNTP client expects the NNTP server to reset the article count to 1,
which is what happened.
--Todd
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| (...) Exactly. I was really wondering why there weren't any new messages on these groups once you started bringing more people in, until I remembered that you probably cleared the groups out. If this is a problem for netscape 3 users, delete the (...) (26 years ago, 1-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) But I was not having the same problems when you were having it. Rather, I had the problem only in the groups which 1) were wiped, but stuck around 2) I had old messages still sitting in inside of Agent. (because of information I needed to (...) (26 years ago, 29-Sep-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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