Bill Seurer wrote: > > Is this a known problem? > > I'm seeing some weirdness with 0.9.9 where if I expand the list of > newsgroups I am subcribed to it will show various ones having various > numbers of new postings. If I then click on one of them the count of > new postings will jump up or down a few sometimes. OK, so some new > postings showed up or were deleted or something. However, when I go > through the postings it will (sometimes) end up with either: > > 1) There still appear to be new postings but there really aren't any > more. I can't use next at this point. If I collapse and expand the > newsgroup list the count will correct itself. > 2) The count decrements to zero but there ARE still new postings. I can > next through them.
FWIW, that bug has somehow managed to persist through a complete rewrite from 4.x. I still use 4.x for mail and news (due to some other, vaguely similar problems with mozilla mail) and this bug is my most-hated 4.x mailnews bug too. Don't know about moz, but for 4.x the usual case is that a message was crossposted to multiple groups that you're subscribed to. If a single new message is crossposted to groups A and B, and no other new messages are posted to B, then after reading all the messages in A you will "advance to next message in B" and there won't be any there. I can't believe this bug managed to make it into Mozilla too. The other problem (which is the killer bug that keeps me away from moz mailnews) is that Mozilla frequently tries to "advance to next new message in" the wrong folder. If folder B already has new messages in it, and I'm in my inbox, and a new message arrives in folder A (which is listed *before* folder B), hitting "next" seems to usually want to "advance to next message in B", rather than in A. This particularly hurts in my case where B is debian-user, which I stay subscribed to in case I ever need to post to it, but I never read, and it has 65,000 messages in it. You don't want to *accidentally* trigger Mozilla to go there... Adding n.p.m.mail-news, as maybe someone there knows what's up. Stuart. -- Stuart Ballard, Programmer NetReach - Internet Solutions (215) 283-2300, ext. 126 http://www.netreach.com/
