In reference to Mike Leavitt's
message dated Mon, 21 Feb 2000 17:12:35 -0800
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> > Anyone else noticed that sometimes the message displayed is not
> > the one hilighted into the group list?
> > The title of the window is correct, but both the headers section
> > and the message itself are wrong.
> > Viewing (or saving) an attachment, if present, is a failure,
> > resulting in an empty file read (or written).
> > I really don't know if I'm the only one experiencing the problem nor
> > if the reason lies into Genesis or maybe my ISP. Please give me some
> > feedback: can someone duplicate that?
> Your ISP has a part in it. I never get mixed up threads, for instance.
Good point here. How can I say for sure?
> But it is also MDII, because after an abort-get, I start to download
> the news again, and I get everything anyway, though no duplicates. It
> appears to have to do with how MKII keeps track of the news count. My
> best guess anyway. Since I just download the headers, delete what I
> don't want and then download the rest for offline reading, it really
> isn't a problem here, but it sure was when I was downloading
> everything, as you had to in .198 and back.
Mmm. Maybe the situation for me is a bit different.
You see, once in a while MD waits for a _very_ long time while
connecting to the news server. Sometimes I get bored of this delay and
click on the AbortGet button *before* MD begins dloading. This, as I
dare to suppose, clears the interface but in the background (after
some time) MD dloads the article anyway.
In the lapse of time between the two actions (/AbortGet/ and /MD
finishing aborted dload by itself/) You can do real damage, i.e.
begin dloading of another article: the contents of this one will be
automatically replaced by the aborted one's (while the subject remain
intact). All dloaded messages after that will be 'shifted'by one, i.e.
so that every article has its right subject but the previously dloaded
one's contents.
> > And don't forget that CleanupDatabase isn't a cure! <grin>
> > Moreover, news that shold've 'truncated' by the AbortGet are, after a
> > while, complete in all their glory :\
*Correction:* This happens (quite) randomly. My ISP fault, IMHO.
Thanks for Your answer anyway. There's a good possibility that MD's
news counter is involved into this mess.
Any ideas, anyone? (Olli?)
*P.S.:*
Sorry, hope this is clearer. I was so focused on 'almost-correct
english' that I forgot 'being understandable' ;)
--
Roberto.
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