At 11:49 AM 6/21/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can tell this guy? I recently
>upgraded my dnews to DNEWS Version 5.5h2 and added another sucking feed at
>the same time.
>Thanks
Do you issue any rebuild commands regularly, in particular
tellnews rebuild_piles
would cause that to occur (due to a bug in rebuild_piles, fixed in
5.6)
Or are you running multiple dnews servers with different item numbering?
ChrisP.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Removed
>Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 12:35 PM
>To: Computer Country
>Subject: Re: Another newsgroup problem.
>
>Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I'm using Netscape
>Communicator's (4.79) news reader module. No modifications. When I finish
>reading the group, I empty the trash and compact the folders. Then the
>program usually purges the read messages.
>
>Computer Country wrote:
>> What news client are you using? I want to get all my information
>> together so I can drop it on the news server program writers and see
>> what they say. I have been unable to duplicate this but I am using
>> Microsoft IE to browse the news groups. I have been monitoring the
>> alt.comp.freeware ng just to kind of see how articles are filling.
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Removed
>>Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 6:19 AM
>>To: CCountry Support
>>Subject: Another newsgroup problem.
>>
>> This morning, I was told that I had over 500 new messages awaiting
>> me to be downloaded from the alt.comp.freeware newsgroup. In actuality,
>> it was a total of 6536. The system gave me no choice but to do this if I
>> want to read the new messages. This is an almost weekly event and takes
>> a long time to do. It has now finished and I am being told that I have a
>> total of only 178 really new messages. I presume that the messages other
>> than that are ones that I have already read, have purged from my system
>> and will purge again.
>> Can you tell me what's going on here? I sure don't like having to do
>> this once a week since it is totally unnecessary.
>
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