At 05:50 AM 5/14/01 +0300, you wrote:
> > If you suck old news without doing a rebuild_index first,
> > then the history
> > index contains the old items, and it' won't re-fetch them,
> > that may explain
> > some of the above, the duplicates and the large dropped value.
>
>Surely I shouldn't have needed a rebuild_index (I've never done one - I
>was always put off by your "It takes hours" comment in the manual :)
>because the spool started off completely empty (the 200Gb I lost)...
If you loose spool files that doesn't loose the corresponding history
entries. so yes you would have needed a rebuild_index.
>I think I figured it out, after combing through the logs for half an
>hour... The dropped parts were items I already had because they were
>crossposted to a group I'd already sucked, I think...
>
>Does that mean I sucked them again, then threw them away? It sure looks
>like it, here...
No it doesn't suck them again due to cross posts, it does record them
as duplicates, that may account for some of the figures you see.
ChrisP.
